Pentagon 'fundamentally rejects' ICC decision to issue arrest warrant for Netanyahu

The Pentagon said it rejects the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) determination to contented apprehension warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and erstwhile Defense Minister Yoav Gallant connected Thursday.

Deputy Pentagon property caput Sabrina Singh told reporters during a property briefing connected Thursday that the U.S. "fundamentally rejects" the ICC’s determination to contented the apprehension warrants.

"We stay acrophobic by the prosecutor’s unreserved to question apprehension warrants, and, you know, immoderate of the processes that person played out," Singh said. "And again, we’ve been precise wide that the ICC does not person jurisdiction implicit this matter."

The ICC charged Netanyahu and Gallant with "crimes against humanity and warfare crimes," including the usage of starvation arsenic a method of warfare and targeting civilians.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, speaks to present erstwhile Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, left, astatine the opening of the 25th Knesset league marking the day of the "Iron Swords" war, successful Jerusalem, Oct. 28. (Debbie Hill/Pool Photo via AP)

President Biden blasted the court’s determination to contented apprehension warrants against the 2 elder Israeli officials.

"The ICC issuance of apprehension warrants against Israeli leaders is outrageous," Biden said. "Let maine beryllium wide erstwhile again: immoderate the ICC mightiness imply, determination is nary equivalence – nary – betwixt Israel and Hamas. We volition ever basal with Israel against threats to its security."

Israeli President Isaac Herzog condemned the court’s actions successful a connection connected Thursday.

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People survey a gathering destroyed by an Israeli airstrike successful Dahiyeh, successful the confederate suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Nov. 14. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

"Taken successful atrocious faith, the outrageous determination astatine the ICC has turned cosmopolitan justness into a cosmopolitan laughingstock," Herzog wrote. "It makes a mockery of the sacrifice of each those who combat for justness – from the Allied triumph implicit the Nazis till today."

Herzog argued that the ICC's determination ignores Hamas' usage of quality shields and its Oct. 7, 2023, panic attacks that started the war, arsenic good arsenic the Israeli hostages remaining successful Gaza.

Israel made respective efforts to artifact the ICC from approving the apprehension warrants. They archetypal argued that the ICC has nary jurisdiction implicit Israel, but the tribunal said it could contented the apprehension warrants arsenic portion of the "territorial jurisdiction of Palestine."

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Israel besides made different procedural challenges, but they were rejected.

The ICC's determination comes conscionable days aft Senate Majority Leader-elect John Thune threatened to deed the tribunal with sanctions if it moved guardant with the apprehension warrants.

The U.S. does not officially admit the ICC’s authority, but it is not the archetypal clip Washington has looked to halt the court’s actions.

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In 2020, the Trump medication opposed attempts by the ICC to analyse U.S. soldiers and the CIA progressive successful alleged warfare crimes betwixt 2003-2004 "in concealed detention facilities successful Afghanistan," and issued sanctions against ICC prosecutors.

Biden's medication undid those sanctions soon aft entering office.

Fox News Digital’s Anders Hagstrom contributed to this report.