Reuters. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Hungarian President Tamas Sulyok on Thursday (April 3) during his visit to Budapest, a rare trip abroad in defiance of an ICC arrest warrant.
Sulyok greeted Netanyahu and the Israeli delegation at the Presidential Palace, from where they looked over the Danube river and the skyline of Budapest.
Netanyahu, invited by Hungary’s right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban, faces the ICC arrest warrant over allegations of war crimes in Gaza as Israel has expanded its military operation in the Palestinian enclave.
In an announcement timed with Netanyahu’s visit on Thursday, Orban said Hungary would withdraw completely from the ICC, an organisation set up more than two decades ago to prosecute those accused of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.