Johnson urges Biden to intervene in ICC's reported plan for Netanyahu arrest warrant

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is calling connected President Biden to utilize the U.S.'s power connected the satellite signifier to artifact the International Criminal Court's (ICC) reported program to contented apprehension warrants for apical Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

If true, the warrants would beryllium "baseless and illegitimate" and beryllium a stroke to U.S. nationalist security, Johnson said successful an impassioned connection Monday. 

"If unchallenged by the Biden administration, the ICC could make and presume unprecedented powerfulness to contented apprehension warrants against American governmental leaders, American diplomats, and American subject personnel, thereby endangering our country's sovereign authority," the talker said.

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Speaker Mike Johnson is calling connected President Biden to intervene amid reports the ICC is readying to complaint Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Getty Images)

"Instead of wrongly targeting Israel, the ICC should prosecute charges against Iran and its panic proxies, including Hamas, for engaging successful horrific warfare crimes. The Biden medication indispensable instantly and unequivocally request that the ICC basal down and the U.S. should usage each disposable instrumentality to forestall specified an abomination."

Fox News Digital reached retired to the White House for a response.

State Department lawman spokesperson Vidant Patel would not corroborate oregon contradict whether the U.S. was alert of the ICC's reported plans during a property briefing connected Monday, but helium told reporters, "On this investigation, our presumption is clear. We proceed to judge that the ICC does not person jurisdiction implicit the Palestinian situation."

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Israeli soldiers adjacent the Israeli-Gaza border, arsenic seen from confederate Israel, connected Thursday, April 25. (AP/Leo Correa)

Israeli officials are acrophobic that the ICC is preparing apprehension warrants implicit Israel's effect to the Oct. 7, 2023, onslaught by the violent radical Hamas, the New York Times reported aboriginal Monday.

Israel has been accused of blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza portion waging a crushed penetration and airstrike run successful bid to get Israeli hostages being held by Hamas backmost to their homes. But there's been mounting disapproval of Israel connected the satellite signifier implicit the severity of its response.

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Israel is not a subordinate of the ICC, but the Palestinian territories are. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

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Like the U.S., Israel is not a subordinate of the ICC, but the Palestinian territories were admitted successful April 2015.

"Under my leadership, Israel volition ne'er judge immoderate effort by the ICC to undermine its inherent close of self-defense," Netanyahu said successful a connection connected X Friday. "The menace to prehend the soldiers and officials of the Middle East’s lone ideology and the world’s lone Jewish authorities is outrageous. We volition not bow to it."

"While the ICC volition not impact Israel’s actions, it would acceptable a unsafe precedent that threatens the soldiers and officials of each democracies warring savage coercion and wanton aggression."