Amid an ongoing effort by Israel to fend off possible arrest warrants against Israeli leaders by the International Criminal Court (ICC), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked U.S. President Joe Biden for assistance during a phone call, the Axios news outlet reported.
Amid an ongoing effort by Israel to fend off possible arrest warrants against Israel i leaders by the International Criminal Court , Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked U.S. President Joe Biden for assistance during a phone call on Sunday, the Axios news outlet reported.
"Such a lawless action by the ICC would directly undermine US national security interests. If unchallenged by the Biden administration, the ICC could create and assume unprecedented power to issue arrest warrants against American political leaders, American diplomats, and American military personnel, thereby endangering our country's sovereign authority," Johnson added.
Israel's National Security Council is leading the Israeli effort to combat those plans, in cooperation with the Foreign Ministry, the Times of Israel reported. "If the court in The Hague takes this scandalous decision to accuse Israel of war crimes, it will ignite a wave of anti-Semitism around the world, and this could thwart an agreement to return the hostages," an Israeli official told Channel 13 News.
A spokesperson for the White House National Security Council told Axios: "As we have publicly said many times, the ICC has no jurisdiction in this situation and we do not support its investigation."
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