Britain would follow due process and arrest Israel’s Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu if he were to visit the United Kingdom, Foreign Secretary David Lammy said on Monday in response to a question from reporters at a G7 meeting near Rome.

Last week, the International Criminal Court in The Hague issued arrest warrants for the Israeli premier and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for alleged “war crimes” committed in Gaza since the start of the Iron Swords War.

“We are signatories to the Rome Statute, we have always been committed to our obligations under international law and international humanitarian law,” Reuters quoted Lammy as saying.

“Of course, if there were to be such a visit to the U.K., there would be a court process and due process would be followed in relation to those issues,” he added.

Following the issuance of the warrants, a host of European governments confirmed they would act on the court’s orders.

Josep Borrell, the European Union’s outgoing foreign policy chief, claimed the ruling was “a binding decision on all states, all the state parties of the court, which include all members of the European Union.”

A French Foreign Ministry spokesperson informed AFP that Paris would respond in line with the court’s founding statutes, raising the possibility that Netanyahu and Gallant could be placed under arrest in France.

Asked by reporters at a press conference if Paris would move to arrest Netanyahu, spokesman Christophe Lemoine said: “It’s a point that is legally complex, so I’m not going to comment on it today.”

Meanwhile, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Saturday threatened to sanction America’s allies if they sought to enforce the ICC’s decision.

“To any ally—Canada, Britain, Germany, France—if you try to help the ICC, we’re going to sanction you,” Graham said in an interview with Fox News.

The U.S. “should crush [their] economy, because we’re next,” he continued.

Graham called on U.S. lawmakers to “act forcefully” against the court.

“Israel is not a member of the ICC nor is the United States. Israel has a very robust legal system and so does the United States. If we do not fight back against the ICC’s attack on Israel, it is as if we are conceding that they have jurisdiction over the United States,” he said. JNS

{Matzav.com}