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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Alexander Butler

UK minister slams International Criminal Court seeking arrest warrants as ‘repugnant’

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A Tory foreign minister has slammed the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) decision to seek arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders as a “repugnant” moral equivalence.

UK deputy foreign secretary Andrew Mitchell said the court’s request “smacked of an unworthy and ludicrous” comparison between Israel and Hamas - and it would not help end the war.

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