Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took an unusual detour on his flight to the United States this week, seemingly to avoid European countries where he could face arrest under an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant for alleged war crimes.

Netanyahu departed Tel Aviv on Wednesday evening to attend the United Nations General Assembly in New York and hold talks with US President Donald Trump. While the normal route would cross European airspace, flight tracker websites showed his aircraft flying the length of the Mediterranean Sea, passing over the Strait of Gibraltar, before heading west across the Atlantic.

According to FlightRadar24, the jet briefly overflew Greece and Italy but avoided both French and Spanish skies, significantly lengthening the journey. CNN, citing a Frenc

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