The International Criminal Court demands explanations from Hungary after the visit of the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu. They have a month to answer

Hungarian media reported that the International Criminal Court is demanding from the authorities in Budapest to explain why Benjamin Netanyhu was not detained during his visit to this country. He issued an international arrest warrant for the prime minister of Israel

About a list that International Criminal Court In Hague he sent to Hungarian authorities on Wednesday, at the end of the week he also informed the Times of Israel portal. The Tribunal reminded that the application for explanations was issued on the basis of one of the articles of the Roman statute, allowing the initiation of proceedings against countries that do not cooperate with the court.

At the same time, MTK stated that Hungary They violated their obligations, refusing to stop Netanyahu, despite the official application sent to Budapest by the court on April 3, i.e. on the day the prime minister's arrival in the country. The Tribunal gave Budapest time to answer until May 23.

Meanwhile, at the beginning of April, the government of Viktor Orban decided to initiate the procedure for Hungary to leave the International Criminal Court. According to Radio Free Europe (RFE), the procedure of the speech of Hungary from the MTK will look as follows: first a draft resolution in this matter will be submitted in the parliament, and if the support is supported, the government will officially initiate the process of exit from the Tribunal. According to RFE sources, this process may take up to a year.

The arrest of the Prime Minister of Israel

In November 2024, MTK issued the arrest of the Prime Minister Israel Benjamina Netanyahu and the then Israeli defense minister Joawa Galant accusing them of war crimes and crimes against humanity in connection with the war in the Gaza Strip, which broke out after Hamas's attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.

MTK decided that there are grounds to think that both politicians 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.” The Tribunal added that Netanyahu and Galant are also suspected of the fact that as civilian military superiors are responsible for committing a war crime of deliberately attacking civilians.