Ireland would arrest Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, says Simon Harris

It comes aft the International Criminal Court issued warrants were for Mr Netanyahu and erstwhile Israeli defence curate Yoav Gallant implicit alleged warfare crimes successful Gaza.

The ICC besides issued a warrant for Mohammed Deif, caput of Hamas’s equipped wing, implicit the October 7 2023 attacks that triggered Israel’s violative successful Gaza.

Israel is believed to person killed Mr Deif successful an aerial onslaught but Hamas has ne'er confirmed his death.

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 individual.

Mr Harris has said the issuing of the warrants was an “extremely important step”.

He said the tribunal points to tenable grounds to judge that Mr Netanyahu and Mr Gallant carnivore transgression work for crimes perpetrated successful the warfare successful Gaza, including the warfare transgression of starvation arsenic a method of warfare, and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution and different inhumane acts.

The Government has agelong expressed its profound interest astir the behaviour of the warfare successful Gaza and has stated intelligibly its content that the rules of planetary instrumentality and planetary humanitarian instrumentality person not been upheld

Simon Harris

In the lawsuit of the enactment of Hamas, the tribunal points to tenable grounds that Mr Deif, on with Ismail Haniyeh and Yahya Sinwar, agreed to transportation retired the attacks of October 7.

It says determination are tenable grounds that Mr Deif is liable for crimes against humanity of murder, extermination, torture, rape and different forms of intersexual violence, and taking hostages.

Mr Harris said: “These charges could not beryllium much serious.

“The Government has agelong expressed its profound interest astir the behaviour of the warfare successful Gaza and has stated intelligibly its content that the rules of planetary instrumentality and planetary humanitarian instrumentality person not been upheld.

“We person insisted that planetary instrumentality indispensable use successful each circumstances, astatine each times, and successful each places, and that those liable for breaches, those who perpetrate warfare crimes and crimes against humanity, indispensable beryllium held afloat to account.”