Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is invited to visit Viktor Orbán’s Hungary despite an outstanding International Criminal Court warrant for his arrest, the EU nation’s foreign minister said.
Hungary’s top diplomat, Péter Szijjártó, declined to explain how the country, a signatory to the Rome Statute that established the ICC, would comply with its obligations to arrest Netanyahu and hand him over to the court to face trial on charges of war crimes in Gaza.
But speaking alongside Israel’s foreign minister Gideon Sa’ar in Budapest on Thursday, Szijjártó blamed “modern age antisemitism” for the ICC’s November decision to charge Netanyahu and then-defence minister Yoav Gallant.