Hungary says that it will withdraw from the International Criminal Court as Netanyahu’s – Israel – Israel International Criminal Court News

The Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Urban has raised the possibility of leaving the International Criminal Court after US President Donald Trump imposed sanctions on the court.

The Hungary government announced that it will withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), before Prime Minister Victor Urban received his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, the issue of the arrest of the International Criminal Court.

“Hungary graduates from the International Criminal Court. The government will start withdrawal procedures on Thursday, according to the constitutional and international legal framework,” the Urban Chief of Staff Jereley Julias posted on Facebook on Thursday.

Urban raised the possibility of the country leaving the International Criminal Court after US President Donald Trump imposed sanctions on the court’s prosecutor Karim Khan in February. Urban said in X in February.

The draft withdrawal law is likely to be approved by the Hungary Parliament, which is dominated by the Oreiban Fests Party. The International Criminal Court did not comment after the announcement of Hungary.

The state’s withdrawal from the court also applies only one year after depositing the withdrawal tool – usually in the form of an official letter declaring the withdrawal – with the UN Secretary -General’s Office.

To date, only Burundi and the Philippines pulled out of the court.

Meanwhile, Netanyahu arrived in Budapest early Thursday morning on his first trip to Europe since 2023 and challenged the arrest warrant for the International Criminal Court against him because of the alleged. War crimes In Gaza.

Israel has rejected the accusations of the court, which it says is politically driven and nurtured by anti -Semitism. She says that the International Criminal Court has lost all legitimacy by issuing orders against a democratically elected leader of a country that exercises self -defense.

Urban extended An invitation to Netanyahu last November, a day after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant.

Urban had pledged that the European Union member would not implement, despite being a member of the International Criminal Court, saying that the court’s decision “is interfering in a continuous conflict … for political purposes.”

The International Criminal Court has criticized the Hague, Hungary’s decision to challenge its order on Netanyahu.

The International Criminal Court judges said when they issued an order that there are reasonable reasons for the belief that Netanyahu and their former defense chief have been responsible for acts, including killing, persecution and hunger as a war weapon as part of a “large -scale and regular attack against the civilian population in Gaza.”

However, the court spokesman, Fadi Al -Abdullah, said that it is not for the parties to the International Criminal Court “determining the integrity of the legal decisions of the court unilaterally.”

Hungary signed the Rome Law, the international treaty that established the International Criminal Court, in 1999 and believed it two years later during the first term of Urban in his post.

Julias said in November that although Hungary was sincere on the Rome Law in the International Criminal Court, he was “not part of the Hungarian law,” which means that no scale for the court can be implemented inside Hungary.