Exclusive: Met Police appoint prosecutor to 'urgently review' application for Israeli president's arrest

The Metropolitan Police's counter terrorism division has appointed a senior specialist prosecutor to "urgently" review an application for an arrest warrant against Israeli President Isaac Herzog, Middle East Eye can reveal.

MEE reported on Tuesday that Herzog, currently in London, is set to meet British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Number 10 on Wednesday evening.

On Tuesday morning, pro-Palestine campaign group Friends of Al-Aqsa (FOA) instructed a legal team to apply for an arrest warrant to be issued for Herzog on "charges of aiding, abetting or procuring direct and indiscriminate attacks on civilians and civilian objects".

The Met responded to FOA that afternoon in an email seen by MEE.

In the email, officers confirmed that "the Counter Terrorism Division received the papers relating to your request in respect of Mr Herzog.

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