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Questions over if Netanyahu would be arrested if he left Israel

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Publish Date
Fri, 22 Nov 2024, 6:28pm
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Questions over if Netanyahu would be arrested if he left Israel

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Fri, 22 Nov 2024, 6:28pm

Questions whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be arrested if he left the country.

The International Criminal Court's been served with an arrest warrant for alleged war crimes.

124 countries are obligated to carry out warrants.

Auckland University Associate Law Professor Treasa Dunworth told Heather du Plessis-Allan countries like the UK and France have been cagey about whether they'd follow through.

“When it was specifically asked what would they do if Netanyahu was in their country, they fudged the answer, so we just don’t know.”

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