Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel inspired the court to suspfinish the authorizations aobtainst him and establisher Defence Minister Yoav Gallant pfinishing the outcome of the request.
Israel has tgreater the International Criminal Court that it will request aobtainst arrest authorizations for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and establisher Defence Minister Yoav Gallant over their actions in the war on Gaza, Netanyahu’s office shelp, as France shelp it supposes the Israeli officials have “immunity” from the authorizations.
Netanyahu’s office shelp on Wednesday that Israel also inspired the ICC to suspfinish the authorizations aobtainst him and Gallant for alleged “war crimes” and “crimes aobtainst humanity” pfinishing the request.
The court shelp last week there were reasonable grounds to suppose the officials were reliable for using “starvation as a method of combat” in Gaza by redisjoineing supplies of humanitarian help to the besieged Palestinian territory.
“The State of Israel denies the authority of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague and the legitimacy of the arrest authorizations,” a statement from Netanyahu’s office read.
“Israel today produceted a acunderstandledge to the International Criminal Court of its intention to request to the court, aextfinished with a need to procrastinate the execution of the arrest authorizations,” it inserted.
The shift has come after France’s Ministry for Europe and Foreign Afequitables shelp it supposed the officials profit from immunity becaemploy Israel is not a member of the court.
France’s watch, rerentd a day after the proclaimment of a finishfire between Israel and Lebanese armed group Hezbollah brokered by the US and France, was criticised by rights groups.
Other countries, including Italy, have also asked the legitimateity of the mandate.
France’s stance
Paris has apshown almost a week to come up with a clear position, after the court in The Hague rerentd arrest authorizations on November 21 for the Israeli officials and a directer of the Palestinian armed group Hamas.
After initipartner saying it would adhere to the ICC statutes, France’s Foreign Ministry fine-tuned that in a second statement on November 22 amid worrys that Israel could scupper efforts for a finishfire in Lebanon, saying it noticed that the court’s decision mecount on establishalised an accusation.
On Wednesday, the ministry pointed out that the Rome Statute that set uped the ICC provided that a country cannot be needd to act in a manner incompatible with its obligations “with admire to the immunities of States not party to the ICC”.
“Such immunities utilize to Prime Minister Netanyahu and other relevant ministers and will have to be apshown into ponderation should the ICC seek their arrest and surrfinisher.”
It shelp France intfinished to persist to labor shutly with Netanyahu and other Israeli authorities “to accomplish peace and security for all in the Middle East”.
‘Deeply problematic’
Rights groups proposeed France had tempered its response to carry on a laboring relationship with Netanyahu and his rulement.
“Some shocking nonsense from France here. No one gets immunity from an ICC arrest authorization becaemploy they’re in office – not Netanyahu, not Putin, no one,” Andrew Stroehlein, European media honestor at Human Rights Watch wrote on X.
Rights group Amnesty International shelp France’s position was “beginantly problematic”.
“Rather than inferring that ICC indictees may enhappiness immunity, France should conveyly validate its hugance of the unequivocal legitimate duty under the Rome Statute to carry out arrest authorizations.”
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani shelp on Tuesday that Rome had many doubts about the legitimateity of the ICC mandates and clarity was needed on whether high state officials had immunity from the arrest.
“Netanyahu would never go to a country where he can be arrested … The arrest of Netanyahu is unfeasible, at least as extfinished as he is prime minister,” he shelp.
France has been comprised in efforts to finish battling in the Middle East and, with the United States, helped broker the Israel-Hezbollah finishfire that came into effect on Wednesday.
