The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has defended arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying that justice must be seen to be done, Anadolu reports.

In an interview with the BBC, Karim Khan said that it was important to show the court would hold all nations to the same standard, welcoming the UK government’s decision to drop its opposition to the arrest warrants.

Khan elaborated that the ICC needed to request warrants for leaders on both sides to ensure people around the world thought the court was applying “the law equally based upon some common standards”.

“If one had applied for warrants in relation to Israeli officials and not for Gaza, [some would] say: ‘well, this is an obscenity’ and, ‘how on earth is that possible?’” he said in the interview, published on Thursday.

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