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On-line flight trackers present that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew a whole bunch of kilometres by Canadian airspace on his method to meet U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday — regardless of Prime Minister Mark Carney beforehand saying he would honour an arrest warrant issued by the Worldwide Felony Courtroom (ICC).
Netanyahu is needed by the ICC for battle crimes and crimes towards humanity in Gaza.
Carney was requested final October by Bloomberg if “Netanyahu can be arrested if he got here to Canada.”
The prime minister twice responded “sure.”
However that is the second time that Netanyahu’s official Israeli authorities plane has carried him by Canadian sovereign territory within the final two months.
On Dec. 29, Netanyahu’s Boeing 767, often called the Wing of Zion, overflew Newfoundland and Nova Scotia on its method to land in Florida, the place Netanyahu met Trump at his Mar-A-Lago residence.
When CBC Information requested for a proof of that flight, World Affairs Canada spokesperson Samantha Lafleur responded the division “doesn’t touch upon which route a international state chooses to take. For safety causes, we’re unable to offer additional particulars.”
Flight crosses 3 provinces
On Tuesday, Netanyahu’s flight crossed Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick earlier than coming into U.S. airspace in Maine.
Canadian protocol requires international authorities flights to hunt permission effectively earlier than coming into Canadian airspace.
“Purposes for international state, navy or scientific plane to function inside Canadian territory must be submitted not less than three working days (72h) earlier than the proposed date of entry into Canadian airspace,” says the federal government’s web site. “This advance notification is essential.”
CBC Information has requested World Affairs if the federal government of Israel sought permission for the newest flight, however had not acquired a solution at time of publication.
Netanyahu has flown to the U.S. seven instances since Trump’s second inauguration.
Throughout that point, his flying patterns have shifted in a manner that means he’s more and more much less apprehensive concerning the danger of arrest.
When the Israeli prime minister travelled to the U.S. on Sept. 25, 2025, Wing of Zion took a lot of detours because it crossed the Mediterranean so as to keep principally over water, and entered the Atlantic by the Strait of Gibraltar.
The itinerary added about 400 kilometres to the traditional size of the flight from Tel Aviv to New York.
Since then, although, Netanyahu has begun to fly in a extra direct route over the European continent. His flightpaths have continued to keep away from Spain, and averted Slovenia when departing Hungary.
The Spanish authorities of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has been some of the essential of Israel’s battle in Gaza, and has stated it is going to implement ICC warrants. Slovenia has been strongly supportive of the ICC and banned Netanyahu from its territory the day after one in all his cross-Europe flights.
However Netanyahu has flown throughout a number of European international locations which might be signatories to the Rome Statute (the treaty that established the ICC), together with France, Italy and Greece.
Solely France has publicly stated that it gave permission for the flights.
The flight route adopted by Netanyahu’s aircraft on Tuesday was a basic Nice Circle route (the shortest potential distance) from Ben Gurion Worldwide Airport in Tel Aviv to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.
A flight path posted by Flight Conscious confirmed the plane crossed 9 European international locations, together with Turkey.
