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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Julian Borger

France says Netanyahu is immune from ICC warrant as Israel is not member of court

Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant
Arrest warrants were issued by the ICC for Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister Yoav Gallant on Friday. Photograph: Amir Cohen/Reuters

The French government has claimed that Benjamin Netanyahu has immunity from arrest warrants issued by the international criminal court for war crimes on the grounds that Israel is not an ICC member.

The claim came soon after Netanyahu’s cabinet agreed to a French-backed ceasefire in Lebanon and is in contrast to Paris’s attitude towards last year’s ICC war crimes warrant issued against Vladimir Putin, another leader of a non-member country.

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