Brussels - Saba:
European Union foreign policy and security chief Josep Borrell said EU countries are obliged to implement the International Criminal Court's order to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former war minister Yoav Galant.
Borrell stressed during a press conference that "the countries that signed the Rome Statute are obliged to implement the court's decision, and this is not optional."
The European official stressed that countries that do not implement the decision will expose themselves to "a legal case for not fulfilling the legal obligation."
Borrell rejected accusations from Israel that the arrest warrants were anti-Semitic, saying: "Every time someone disagrees with the policy of a particular Israeli government, they are accused of anti-Semitism. This is unacceptable."
On Thursday, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for the enemy's prime minister and war minister, in compliance with an earlier request by the court's prosecutor, Karim Khan, for war crimes committed in Gaza.
The ICC said in a press release that there were reasonable grounds to believe that Netanyahu and Galant oversaw attacks against civilians.
The Court held both "criminally responsible for the following crimes as participants in the commission of acts in association with others: the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare;
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