David Lammy, who was appointed as the British foreign secretary earlier this month after Labour won the general election, is slated to visit Israel on Monday.
His itinerary includes meetings with Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz and other senior government officials. Ahead of the visit, British diplomats have engaged in preliminary discussions with their Israeli counterparts, addressing recent media reports.
Specifically, they conveyed that The Guardian article suggesting London's new government would abandon the UK's effort to challenge the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the attempts to issue arrests warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was "not accurate," emphasizing that the matter remains under review.
The previous government, under Rishi Sunak, joined Israel in fighting against the chief prosecutors of the court Karim Khan after he submitted an application to have the court issue an arrest warrant for Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant over the Gaza War for alleged war crimes, along with Hamas leaders.
