WORLD ISRAEL NEWS
New UK leader likely to allow ICC arrest warrant against Netanyahu
July 10, 2024

Britain’s new Labour government under Prime Minister Keir Starmer is likely to drop its predecessor’s challenge to arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court against senior Israeli leaders earlier this year. In May, ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan, a British national, revealed to CNN that his office had filed arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and three senior Hamas leaders, charging all five with war crimes in the ongoing war between Israel and the Hamas terror organization. Now, according to a report on Monday by The Guardian, Britain is poised to drop its objections to the arrest warrants issued for the Israeli leaders. The ICC had set a July 12th deadline for Britain to provide documentation for its grievances against the arrest warrants. READ MORE

THE GUARDIAN US ‘pressuring UK to block ICC’s Netanyahu arrest warrant’ The US has been accused of putting pressure on the new Labour government not to drop a legal challenge mounted by Rishi Sunak’s administration over the international criminal court’s right to seek an arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes.