The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates summoned the head of Hungary’s Representative Office Diczházi Gábor in protest of the welcoming by Hungary of Netanyahu, who is wanted by the ICC for war cries and crimes against humanity against the Palestinian people.
Director of the European Department within the Ministry, Adel Atieh, informed the Hungarian diplomat to convey Palestine’s denunciation of this step and informed him that welcoming Netanyahu was considered a grave act of complicity with Israel, the occupying state, that only serves to encourage Israel to continue the crimes of genocide and forced displacement of Palestinians with impunity.
He affirmed Hungary’s decision to withdraw from the ICC, following Netanyahu’s arrival in Budapest for a state visit, does not relieve it of its obligations under international law and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, particularly given the ongoing grave Israeli violations against Palestinian civilians.
Israel unilaterally ended the Gaza ceasefire agreement and resumed its aggression on the Strip on March 18, carrying out a wave of bloody airstrikes across the Strip and killing hundreds of Palestinians, including over 100 children.
The death toll reached 1,391 with 3,434 others wounded, according to medical sources. Emergency teams are attempting to recover victims still trapped beneath the rubble.
The aggression was resumed amidst concerns over the deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the Strip given the ongoing siege and ban on the entry of medical and humanitarian aid.
Israel has waged a military onslaught on the Strip since October 2023, killing 50,752 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring 115,475 others.
Moreover, at least 10,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.
The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.