- Title: Israel's Netanyahu visits Holocaust memorial in Budapest
- Date: 4th April 2025
- Summary: BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (APRIL 4, 2025) (REUTERS) BOATS ON DANUBE NEXT TO PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS ISRAELI DELEGATION WITH PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU ARRIVING AT “SHOES ON THE BANK OF THE DANUBE” HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL NETANYAHU AND WIFE SARA NETANYAHU AT MEMORIAL “SHOES ON THE BANK OF THE DANUBE” HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL NETANYAHU AND WIFE SARA AT MEMORIAL VARIOUS OF ISRAELI AND HUNGA
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- Keywords: Holocaust memorial Hungary ICC arrest warrant Netanyahu in Budapest
- Location: BUDAPEST, HUNGARY
- City: BUDAPEST, HUNGARY
- Country: Hungary
- Topics: Diplomacy/Foreign Policy,Europe,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA001423704042025RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the “Shoes on the bank of the Danube” Holocaust memorial in Budapest on Friday (April 4) during his rare trip abroad in defiance of an ICC arrest warrant.
Netanyahu, invited by Hungary's right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban, faces the ICC arrest warrant over allegations of war crimes in Gaza as Israel has expanded its military operation in the Palestinian enclave.
Hungary has rejected the idea of arresting the Israeli prime minister and has called the warrant "brazen."
Orban invited his Israeli counterpart to Budapest in November, a day after the arrest warrant was issued over Israel's offensive in Gaza, launched after an attack by the Palestinian Islamist militant group Hamas on southern Israel.
Israel has rejected the ICC accusations, saying they are politically motivated and fuelled by antisemitism. It says the ICC has lost all legitimacy by issuing warrants against a democratically elected leader of a country exercising its right to self-defence.
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