we start in the United States where Donald Trump has denounced the international criminal court accusing it of illegitimate and baseless actions against the US and Israel in an executive order sanctioning the court he said it had abused its power by issuing arrest warrants for the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister yuav Galant the court alleges they committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza well on Thursday Mr Netanyahu met top us lawmakers on Capitol Hill neither Israel nor the US is a member of the ICC or recognizes its jurisdiction let's
speak now to our correspondent Joe Inwood who's in Jerusalem for us H and Joe what kind of a difference does this sanctioning make for Benjamin Netanyahu for whom we have to remember the ICC has issued an arrest warrant for it is worth pointing out that neither the us as you said before or Israel recognize the court and so in terms of the Practical implications it's quite difficult to know what those would be I mean it might alter the judgments might this decision by the Trump Administration alter the judgments of other countries who are signatories as
to whether they might try and execute any arrest warrant that's very difficult to know one of the things that has been said this morning is that these sanctions this was from a former employee might impact the ability of the ICC to carry out its function but what we can say for certain is that this decision has been very warmly welcomed by prime minister Netanyahu fresh off the back of his meeting with Donald Trump they've previously described the court as anti-semitic and saying its judgment DRS false equivalence between Israel and Hamas so they're very very pleased
to see this from Donald Trump we haven't heard from the ICC itself yet but we have heard from other governments who seem to be very disappointed in the decision and let's bring you back to earlier in the week Donald Trump shocked the world maybe even benman Netanyahu himself with that idea to redevelop Gaza into a sort of holiday report he made that announcement at his press conference with the Israeli leader earlier this week music to the ears of some hardliners in Israel at some of whom have begun to act on us what's the latest there
certainly to put out statement suggesting that they want to act on it we heard from the defense M Minister yesterday Israel Kats who said he's informed the IDF the the military here to start making preparations to allow for the voluntary withdrawal or voluntary removal of garans now it's interesting that they're actually not going as far it seems as president Trump did he's talked about essentially being forced we should say that would be a crime under international law whereas the Israeli um politicians certainly the the more um senior ones we've heard speak framing this as giving
Palestinians giving garans the option to leave now it is very much worth pointing out that that will be met with some skepticism you could say by people who would say that the Palestinians the Garin have been denied that right for many many years and so it is interesting timing that the Israeli government decide that the freedom to move is a right there should be given at this point Joe enwood in Jerusalem thank you very much
