Biden calls ICC arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant “reprehensible”

Netanyahu accused the court of being “anti-Semitic”

After the arrest warrant was issued, Netanyahu described the court’s decision as “absurd and false” as well as “anti-Semitic” and assured that it is “nothing more than the war that Israel is waging in Gaza.” Hamas, for its part, welcomed the measure and said that “international justice” stands with the organization “against the Zionist entity.”

The ICC does not have a police force to arrest suspects, but its 125 member states, including the United Kingdom and European Union countries, have an obligation to cooperate with the court.

,ICC is not taking anti-Semitic decisionsis enforcing jurisdiction,” European diplomacy chief Josep Borrell said in an interview with RNE. “The U.S. – which, like Israel, does not recognize the ICC – has not signed, but other countries have (…) That’s why the US will say what it wants, but if Netanyahu steps into that country which has signed the convention, must be stopped“He said.

The ICC decision comes after its prosecutor requested the court in late May to issue arrest warrants against Netanyahu, Gallant and Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniya and Mohammed Diab Ibrahim al-Masri.The first two killed by Israel.