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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that he travels with Israeli “special forces” in the event that he is arrested abroad for his charges by the International Criminal Court (ICC) — as he vowed to travel to New York City for the UN General Assembly meeting in September.

In an interview with Fox, Sean Hannity expressed concern that Netanyahu may face arrest in a country that is party to the ICC in the case that his plane needs to make an emergency landing. “God forbid you had a medical emergency and you had to land, and you had to land in a country that recognizes the ICC,” Hannity said. “Do you worry about that?”

“I think about it,” Netanyahu said. “We have special forces around. I served with them for five years,” he said, referring to his time serving in the Israeli military’s elite Seyeret Matkal unit.

“The IDF is pretty tough,” Hannity said.

“Let’s give them a new task,” Netanyahu said.

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There are 125 countries party to the ICC’s founding statute, including much of Europe, South and Central America, and Africa, as well as Canada. Not all of these countries would necessarily arrest Netanyahu if he were to make an emergency landing, however, and some critics have noted that member states have allowed Netanyahu........

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