About the correspondence sent by International Criminal Court To Budapest on Wednesday, Times of Israel said at the end of the week. The Tribunal was to remind, among others that he is demanding providing explanations based on one of the articles of the Roman statuteallowing the initiation of proceedings against countries that do not cooperate with him.
Hungary. MTK demands explanations from the Orban government. It's about the lack of detention for Netanyahu
Israeli medium also reports that MTK stated that Hungary violated their obligationsrefusing to stop the Prime Minister of Israel Binjamin Netanyahudespite the fact that on April 3, an application was forwarded to Budapest. On the same day, Netanajahu arrived in the Hungarian capital at the invitation of the prime minister Victor Orban. The Hungarian authorities have time to answer until May 23.
It is not certain whether the Orban's government will decide to provide explanations, because at the beginning of April the head of the Hungarian office stated that his country would leave the MTK structure.
Radio Free Europe notes, however, that The whole procedure may take up to a yearbecause it is necessary to submit a draft resolution in this matter in the parliament, and then vote it and only initiate the exit process.
War in the Gaza Strip. MTK chases Netanyahu and Galanta
The order to arrest the Prime Minister of Israel MTK issued in November 2024. Along with the order to detain the then Israeli Minister of Defense Jausta Gallanta. Both were accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity in connection with war in the Gaza Stripwhich broke out after Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
MTK believes that there are grounds to think that Netanyahu and Galant are responsible for “war crimes involving the use of hunger as a method of fighting and crimes against humanity in the form of killings, persecution and other inhuman deeds.” In addition, they are also suspected of committing war crimes consisting in deliberately attacking civilians.