The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, will begin on Thursday a four -day visit to Hungary, challenging an arrest warrant of the International Criminal Court (CPI) for accusations of war crimes in Gaza, while Israel expanded its military operation in the enclave.
As a founding member of the ICC, Hungary is theoretically forced to stop and deliver to any person on whom weighing a arrest warrant, but Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, made it clear when studying the invitation that Hungary did not respect the order.
Netanyahu, who faces a political storm in his country because of an investigation into alleged links between Qatar and three of his collaborators, plans to meet with Orban before a press conference that will be held around 10.00 GMT.
Netanyahu rejected the accusations against his advisors by qualifying them as “false news.” A responsible Qatari rejected the accusations as part of a “discredit campaign” against Qatar.
In Budapest, the workers built a stage on Wednesday at the Buddha Castle, where Orban plans to welcome Netanyahu in a ceremony with military honors on Thursday morning, and security forces could be seen near the central Budapest hotel where Netanyahu will stay.
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This visit the second that Netanyahu makes from an apprehension issuance
The visit will be only the second that he performs abroad since the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants against him and the former Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant, last November, but the details of his program have been limited, apart from an planned visit to a commemorative monument of the Holocaust.
In February he visited Washington to meet with his narrow ally, US President Donald Trump. Neither Israel nor the United States are members of the CPI and Washington argues that the ICC could be used for prosecutions for political reasons.
Orban invited Netanyahu to visit him one day after the ICC issued his arrest warrant for accusations of war crimes in Gaza, where Israel launched an offensive after a devastating attack of thousands of Hamas fighters, in which 1,200 people died and 251 were taken as hostages.
Since then, the Israel Army has killed more than 50,000 Palestinians and devastated the Gaza Strip, triggering protests worldwide and leading South Africa to take legal actions separately in the International Court of Justice (CIJ), an organism other than the ICC, accusing Israel of Genocide.
With Reuters information
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