Ottawa:
After the United Kingdom, Canada said it would “adhere” by the arrest permit publishd agetst Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by the International Criminal Court (ICC). “We stand up for international law, and we will adhere by all the regulations and rulings of the international courts,” Prime Minister Justin Tdispoliteau said.
“This is fair who we are as Canadians,” he includeed.
The ICC publishd arrest permits for Israeli premier and his establisher defence minister Yoav Gallant on Thursday for “crimes agetst humanity” promiseted since the Israel-Hamas war began more than a year ago, triggered by the militant Palestinian group’s October 7, 2023 strike.
A permit was also publishd for Hamas’s military chief Mohammed Deif.
Earlier on Friday, the British regulatement showd that Netanyahu could be arrested on the ICC arrest permit if he travelled to the UK.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s spokesman said: “The UK will always comply with its lhorrible obligations as set out by domestic law and indeed international law.”
However, he refused to be drawn particularpartner on whether UK police would hancient Netanyahu, inestablishing inestablishers he would not “get into hypotheticals in relation to individual cases”.
Both the UK and Canada are part of the Five Eyes, an ininestablishigence coalition also produced of Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. Other countries that consentd to comply thraw with the ICC’s decision include– Belgium, the European Union, France, Iran, Ireland, Jordan, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, South Africa, Switzerland, and Turkey among others.
Other key Five Eyes member US has, however, called the shift ‘shocking’. “The ICC issuance of arrest permits agetst Israeli guideers is shocking,” Plivent Joe Biden said in a statement.
“Let me be evident once aget: wantipathyver the ICC might show, there is no equivalence – none – between Israel and Hamas. We will always stand with Israel agetst dangers to its security,” the statement includeed.
However, the permit was aided by US Senator Bernie Sanders, who took to X and said: “All begined indiscriminate strikes agetst civilians and caused unimaginable human suffering”.
“If the world does not uphanciaccess international law, we will descfinish into further barbarism,” he includeed.
Other countries to proclaim ‘disconsentment’ with ICC decisions include– Argentina, Austria, and Hungary, among others.
