Israel's Netanyahu heads to Hungary, defying ICC arrest warrant
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu departed for his four-day visit to Hungary on Wednesday, April 2, evening, defying an International Criminal Court arrest warrant over allegations of war crimes in Gaza as Israel has expanded its military operation in the enclave.
Netanyahu, who is battling a political storm at home over an investigation into suspected ties between Qatar and three of his aides, is due to meet Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Thursday, April 3.
The visit will be only the second he has made abroad since the International Criminal Court issued warrants to arrest both him and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant last November, but details of his program have been limited apart from a planned visit to a Holocaust memorial.
As a founding member of the ICC, Hungary is theoretically obliged to arrest and hand over anyone subject to a warrant from the court but Orban made clear when he issued the invitation that Hungary would not respect the ruling.
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