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[wikipedia]) Israel official government aircraft, Wing of Zion. [wikipedia] The plane carrying Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the United States to attend the UN General Assembly again used the airspace of Greece, Italy, and France despite an arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court, Anadolu reports. According to flight-tracking website Flightradar24, Netanyahu’s plane left Israel early Thursday for the United States to attend the 81st session of the UN General Assembly and crossed the airspace of European countries that are members of the International Criminal Court. All three countries are parties to the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the ICC, and are generally required to cooperate with the court’s requests to arrest and surrender wanted individuals found on their territory. The treaty, however, does not explicitly require a member state to intercept or force down an aircraft merely because a person subject to an ICC arrest warrant is flying through its airspace. Netanyahu’s plane followed a similar route during his trip to the US in July, also crossing the airspace of Greece, Italy and France. When Netanyahu traveled to the United States in September 2025 to attend the previous UN General Assembly, his plane took a route over the Mediterranean Sea and through the Strait of Gibraltar, apparently to avoid the airspace his plane used this year. On Nov. 21, 2024, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip. 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