The plane carrying Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Florida for talks with U.S. President Donald Trump passed through the airspace of three countries that are parties to the International Criminal Court, despite an active ICC arrest warrant against the Israeli leader.

Flight tracking data from FlightRadar24 showed Netanyahu’s aircraft, known as “Wings of Zion,” crossed the airspace of Greece, Italy and France before reaching the Atlantic Ocean.

All three countries are signatories to the Rome Statute, which obliges member states to cooperate with ICC arrest warrants.

  • visc@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Yikes guys, of course France isn’t going to murder all on board just to get one criminal.

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      9 hours ago

      Yikes guys, Operation Valkyrie seems kinda problematic, that exploding briefcase killed several Nazi officers who just happened to be in the same room as Hitler.

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      If their pilot is willing to kill the entire plane to not let one genocidal war criminal be arrested on land, that’s a pilot who should also be rotting in the Hague.

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      Yeah, it’s not like they’re ISRAEL or the US!

      That aside, though, they could have arrested him without killing anyone relatively easily by just enforcing their airspace to make the “Wings of Zion” (🤮) land.