7 hours agoDespite JNP arrest, Netanyah visits Hungary
Periskopi(a year ago)
(a year ago)Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has arrived in Hungary on 3 April, on his first trip to Europe since the International Criminal Court (GJNP) issued a warrant for his arrest over alleged war crimes in Gaza. Hungary's Defence Minister Christophe Szalay-Bobrovnikky met Netanyah at Budapest airport around the hour [...]
Hungary's Defence Minister Christophe Szalay-Bobrovnikky met with Netanyah at Budapest Airport around 2:30 and then, through a Facebook post, announced that the Israeli leader had arrived for a visit to his country.
Welcome to Budabs, Benjamin Netanyahu”, wrote Szalay-Bobrovitzky, also publishing photos with the Israeli leader during their meeting at the airport.
Despite his arrest, Netanyahu is sure he will not be arrested during his four-day visit.
As signatories to the tribunal in The Hague, Hungary is obliged to arrest him, but Budapest's domestic legal situation is complicated and has given the government sufficient space to welcome the Israeli prime minister.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has publicly invited Netanyah to visit in November, shortly after the JNP issued a warrant for arrest.
“I guarantee him, if he comes, that the JNP decision will have no effect in Hungary”, Orban said, writes. REL, broadcast Periscope.
Diplomatic sources within Hungary have told Free Europe Radio that the state has decided to withdraw from the JNP, even though such a decision has not yet been officially confirmed.
Orban is next to Netanyah and US President Donald Trump, who has also criticised the decision to issue arrest.
Trump has imposed sanctions on the JNP last month, criticising him as the groundless “” speaks of the arrest of Netanyah and former Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.
The indictment reportedly says Netanyahu “is claimed to be responsible for war crimes, respectively for the use of hunger as a war method and deliberately has led an attack against the civilian population and war crimes of murder, persecution and other inhuman acts from October 8th 2023 to May 2024<1>.
The JNP cannot arrest anyone, but it is up to the states that have signed the treaty to establish the Rome Constitution to implement the warrants.
The “does not belong to states to unilaterally determine the legal aspect of court decisions”, said JNP spokesman Fadi El-Abdallah for Radio Free Europe.
According to him, states have a legal obligation to carry out court decisions.
This stance is supported by two lawyers with whom Radio Free Europe spoke. /Periscopi/
