Europe's top diplomat Josep Borrell has insisted that the International Criminal Court's decision to issue arrest warrants for Israel's prime minister and his former defence secretary should be respected, but European countries are not so sure.
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00:00Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said he would ignore the arrest warrant issued
00:06by the International Criminal Court for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
00:14Orban added that he would extend an invitation to Netanyahu to travel to Budapest and that
00:19the court's verdict would not have an effect in Hungary.
00:46Netanyahu condemned the court's decision to issue warrants against him and his former
00:51Defense Secretary Yoav Galand and called the verdict anti-Semitic.
01:07An arrest warrant was also issued to Hamas leader Mohamed Daif.
01:11U.S. President Joe Biden said that there was no equivalent between Israel and Hamas and
01:16condemned the court for comparing the Israeli politicians with Daif.
01:22The U.S. and Israel are not members of the ICC, but the 27 member states of the European
01:28Union are required to detain those with an arrest warrant if they set foot on their soil.
01:35The court has no way of enforcing this, but the EU's top diplomat Josep Borrell said the
01:40court's decision should be respected and implemented.
01:47Several member states, such as Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands, France and Sweden, signaled
01:53that they would respect the court's decision.