Warsaw has refused to honor the worldwide arrest warrant for Israel’s prime minister
Lots of of individuals marched in Warsaw on Friday to protest towards the Polish authorities’s choice to not arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who is needed by the Worldwide Prison Court docket (ICC).
In November, The Hague-based court docket issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his former protection minister, Yoav Gallant, on the costs of committing conflict crimes in Gaza. On Thursday, the workplace of Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk introduced that Warsaw wouldn’t arrest Netanyahu if the Israeli chief selected to journey to Poland for the eightieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi Auschwitz dying camp throughout World Warfare II.
Protesters rallied outdoors the Presidential Chancellery constructing, waving Palestinian flags and posters with anti-Netanyahu slogans.
Protest przeciw polskiej ochronie dla Netanjahu idzie sprzed Kancelarii Prezydenta pod Ministerstwo Sprawiedliwości i Kancelarię Premiera. Jest kilkaset osób, skandują “aresztować Netanjahu”. @OnetWiadomoscipic.twitter.com/UEpZyvQHVn
— Marcin Terlik (@MarcinTerlik) January 10, 2025
The gang chanted “arrest Netanyahu,” in addition to the accusations that Tusk and Polish President Andrzej Duda had been “defending genocide.”
As a result of the ICC lacks any police drive or enforcement powers of its personal, it depends on the international locations that signed the Rome Statute to implement its warrants. Poland signed the treaty, however Israel didn’t. Netanyahu has denied the accusations of conflict crimes and reaffirmed that the Jewish state doesn’t acknowledge the court docket’s jurisdiction.
The Israeli prime minister isn’t presently planning to attend the ceremony commemorating the 1945 liberation of Auschwitz, the Occasions of Israel wrote on Thursday, citing an aide within the Netanyahu cupboard. Netanyahu might take into account attending, however Poland must “clear up the ICC difficulty” first, the aide mentioned.
On Thursday, the US Home of Representatives handed a invoice authorizing the imposition of sanctions on the ICC if the court docket fees Individuals or the residents of allied nations. The US doesn’t acknowledge the court docket’s jurisdiction and has refused to again the excellent warrant for Netanyahu.
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