Benjamin Netanyahu faces an ICC arrest warrant - which countries would detain him?

The world's apical war-crimes tribunal has issued apprehension warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his erstwhile defence curate and Hamas's subject chief.

The warrants said determination was crushed to judge Mr Netanyahu and erstwhile Defence Minister Yoav Gallant person utilized "starvation arsenic a method of warfare" by restricting humanitarian assistance and person intentionally targeted civilians successful Israel's run against Hamas successful Gaza.

The warrant marked the archetypal clip that a sitting person of a large Western state has been accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the ICC.

The determination means Mr Netanyahu and the others are internationally wanted suspects, putting them astatine hazard of apprehension erstwhile they question abroad.

But portion immoderate countries person said they would travel the warrant and detain Mr Netanyahu and the different accused if they were to visit, others - including the US - person rejected the court’s authority.

Israel has rejected “with disgust the absurd and mendacious actions" by the court.

Here is what antithetic countries person said astir whether they would apprehension Mr Netanyahu if helium were to question to their territory:

But Home Secretary Yvette Cooper declined connected Friday to accidental whether Mr Netanyahu oregon his erstwhile defence curate Yoav Gallant would beryllium arrested if they came to the UK.

She said the "overwhelming majority" of ICC investigations "never" go a substance for the British ineligible strategy oregon government, and added: "In immoderate case, wherever they ever bash determination are due processes that request to beryllium followed and truthful it wouldn't beryllium due for maine to remark connected those.”

"Whatever the ICC mightiness imply, determination is nary equivalence - nary - betwixt Israel and Hamas," Mr Biden said. "We volition ever basal with Israel against threats to its security.”

The White House has besides said it is "deeply acrophobic by the prosecutor's unreserved to question apprehension warrants and the troubling process errors that led to this decision."

Asked by Irish nationalist broadcaster RTE if Mr Netanyahu would beryllium arrested successful Ireland, Taoiseach Simon Harris said connected Friday: "Yes, absolutely. We enactment planetary courts and we use their warrants."

He was not asked astir immoderate different idiosyncratic but the country's lawman premier aboriginal said warrants against Hamas enactment would besides "absolutely" beryllium executed.

France initially signalled it could apprehension the Israeli premier if helium came to its territory. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Christophe Lemoine called it a "complex ineligible issue" but said France supports the court's actions.

"Combating impunity is our priority," helium said. "Our effect volition align with these principles."

However, it toned down its absorption connected Friday, with Mr Lemoine saying the state “noted” the court’s warrant and “reiterates its attachment to the autarkic enactment of the court.”

Berlin said it would cautiously analyse the apprehension warrants but volition not instrumentality further steps until a sojourn to Germany is planned, a authorities spokesperson said connected Friday.

"The German authorities was progressive successful the drafting of the ICC statute and is 1 of the biggest supporters of the ICC - this cognition is besides the effect of German history," the spokesperson said.

"At the aforesaid time, it is simply a effect of German past that we stock unsocial relations and a large work with Israel."

Italy's Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Rome would see with allies however to construe the determination and enactment together.

"We enactment the ICC ... the tribunal indispensable play a ineligible relation and not a governmental role," helium added.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said that not lone would helium defy the tribunal - Hungary is simply a subordinate - but that helium would widen an invitation to Mr Netanyahu to question to Budapest.

Mr Orbán called the warrants "outrageously impudent” and “cynical”, adding: “The ICC ruling volition person nary effect successful Hungary, and we volition not travel its contents.”

Belgium's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it supported the enactment of the ICC, and that "those liable for crimes committed successful Israel and Gaza indispensable beryllium prosecuted astatine the highest level, careless of who committed them.”

Dutch overseas curate Caspar Veldkamp, whose state hosts the International Criminal Court, has confirmed The Netherlands would apprehension Mr Netanyahu if helium arrived connected Dutch soil.

"The enactment from the authorities is clear. We are obliged to cooperate with the ICC ... we abide 100% by the Rome Statute,” helium said successful the country’s parliament.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling enactment has welcomed the apprehension warrants, calling them a judgement made for the involvement of "humanity."

Omer Celik, spokesperson for the Erdogan's party, said connected the societal media level X that Mr Netanyahu and Mr Gallant would "eventually beryllium held accountable for genocide."

The Swiss Federal Office of Justice said it is obliged to cooperate with the ICC nether the Rome Statute and would truthful person to apprehension Mr Netanyahu, Mr Gallant oregon Masri if they entered Switzerland.

Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard said Sweden and the EU "support the court's important enactment and support its independency and integrity".

Swedish instrumentality enforcement authorities determine connected the apprehension of subjects of ICC warrants connected Swedish territory, she added.

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has signalled the state would detain the Israeli premier nether the warrant if helium were to visit.

Mr Trudeau said: "It's truly important that everyone abide by planetary law", adding the state would abide by rulings of planetary courts.