Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the UK 'respects the independence' of the ICC after the action against Benjamin Netanyahu and ex-minister Yoav Gallant.
FollowThe UK has been warned it could face US reprisals for helping enforce an International Criminal Court arrest warrant for the Israel i PM.
And the backlash has been huge in the US, where Donald Trump is due to take power in less than two months. Senior Republican Senator Lindsey Graham warned last night that the US would not 'let the world believe for a moment that this is a legitimate exercise of jurisdiction by the Court against Israel because to do so means we could be next'.
In a round of interviews this morning, Ms Cooper insisted that the ICC warrants were 'not a matter for me as Home Secretary'. Asked if Mr Netanyahu would be arrested if he came to the UK, the PM's spokesman said: 'We are not going to get into hypotheticals.' 'We should all be focused on defeating the Hamas terrorists, liberating the hostages, ensuring that civilians in Gaza receive all necessary aid and working towards a sustainable peace for Israelis and Palestinians. The decision of the ICC is counter-productive in all these respects.'
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