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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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01:30today he is flying to Hungary to meet the Hungarian PM, Viktor Orban, and we protest
01:40against his intentions to fire the head of Shabah, Kronenberg, and the Attorney General,
01:45Galibar Amiara, in the Qatar Gate investigation. And we came today to the airport, Ben Gurion
01:51airport, to protest again against him and to defend our democracy and our rights and our laws
02:00in Israel and in order to protest to retrieve our 59 hostages being abandoned by our Prime
02:08Minister, our corrupted Prime Minister.
02:30They are dragging us to a horrible situation where the majority are not supporting it.
02:50The majority of the people don't want a war. The majority of the people don't want to occupy
02:59Gaza or make settlements there. This is useless. This is just getting us into more trouble
03:08in the future. We must have a separation between our state and the Arabs and let us live in peace.
03:29Thank you very much.
03:59Thank you very much.

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