NATO members have been divided by the landmark ICC ruling, with several confirming they would enforce the arrest warrants while the US threatens sanctions against prosecutors in The Hague
The British government says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces arrest if he travels to the UK as officials confirmed on 23 November that London would fulfill its "legal obligations" as a signatory to the Rome Statute.
An official spokesman for Prime Minister Keir Starmer told media on Friday that the government "would fulfill its legal obligations under the International Criminal Court (ICC) Act 2001, which states that if the court issues a warrant for arrest, a designated minister "shall transmit the request … to an appropriate judicial officer", who “shall endorse the warrant for execution in the United Kingdom.”
Nevertheless, the spokesman refused to comment on “hypotheticals” when pressed if this meant Netanyahu would be detained if he entered the UK.
The announcement from 10 Downing Street came on the same day that officials in Berlin said Germany would not arrest the Israeli premier if he traveled to the country, citing “its Nazi history.”
“I find it hard to imagine that arrests could be carried out in Germany on this basis,” government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit told reporters.
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11/21 — French Foreign Ministry Says France Will Implement The ICC's Warrants
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11/21 — 🚨🇮🇱⚖️ICC Issues Arrest Warrants For Netanyahu And Gallant
The US rejected the warrants since it implicates US officials
... The ICC said the two Israeli leaders also “bear criminal responsibility as civilian superiors for the war crime of intentionally directing an attack against the civilian population.”
The court said Netanyahu and Gallant “intentionally and knowingly deprived the civilian population in Gaza of objects indispensable to their survival, including food, water, and medicine and medical supplies, as well as fuel and electricity.”
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5/20 — Netanyahu is Comparing the Prosecutor at the ICC to Nazi Judges.
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