October 20, 2025 | 10:46 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Sunday that under his leadership, Canada would enforce the International Criminal Court's (ICC) arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he visits the country.
In November 2024, ICC issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
In an interview with Bloomberg, as cited by Anadolu, Carney was asked if Canada would respect the ICC warrant. He answered "Yes" when asked if he was willing to arrest Netanyahu.
In a separate interview on Friday, as reported by The National Post, Carney stated that Netanyahu's government's actions "were explicitly designed to end any possibility of a state of Palestine in violation of the UN charter and going against Canadian government policy of whatever political stripe since 1947."
Since 1947, Canadian government policy has been to support a two-state solution, Carney said.
Canada recognized Palestine on September 21, just ahead of the United Nations General Assembly. This was accompanied by coordinated announcements from the UK, Australia, and Portugal, quickly followed by France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, and Andorra on September 22-23.
Separately, in December 2023, South Africa initiated landmark legal proceedings against Israel in the International Court of Justice (ICJ), alleging violations of the 1948 Genocide Convention in its war in Gaza. Israel's genocide in Gaza was temporarily halted after a ceasefire was announced by US President Donald Trump earlier this month.
Between January and May 2024, the ICJ issued three sets of provisional measures ordering Israel to stop the genocide, cease its military operations, and allow humanitarian access to the enclave.
Since October 2023, Israel's genocidal war has killed nearly 68,200 Palestinian civilians, mostly children and women, and injured over 170,200 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
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