The Italian government is debating whether to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he enters Italy, following the International Criminal Court's (ICC) arrest warrant for the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant. Various members of the government took opposing viewpoints until Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni attempted to reestablish a cohesive approach, although without providing definite answers about the potential of imprisonment. The Court's decisions should be binding on all countries who recognize their authority, including Italy, but the Court has no mechanism of putting them into action, and each government determines whether or not to apply them based on political convenience. This is what the Italian government is debating: whether to pursue the ICC arrest warrant, risking a deterioration in diplomatic relations with the Israeli government, or to ignore it. It is plainly a hypothetical question: if the government decides to comply with the arrest warrant, Netanyahu will not fly to Italy for state visits or institutional meetings, allowing him to avoid incarceration.