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President Lee Jae Myung said Wednesday Korea should consider complying with the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as he strongly criticized Israel for arresting Korean nationals in international waters. Lee called their detention “way out of line” as he mentioned the Israeli military’s seizure of a Gaza-bound humanitarian ships carrying Korean activists, while receiving a briefing on the Middle East conflict during a weekly Cabinet meeting. The president questioned the legal basis for intercepting the ship, asking whether the vessel had entered Israeli territorial waters or violated any recognized boundary. “There are even minimum international norms, and they are violating all of them,” Lee said. “How belligerent parties deal with each other is not really for us to intervene in, but is it justifiable to seize, arrest and detain a third-country vessel that was trying to provide aid or volunteer support?” The president assessed that the fact that the activist aboard the vessel did not follow the Seoul governme