Orban supports Netanyahu against international arrest warrant

"This court has been degraded to a tool of politics," Orban said in a joint press release with Netanyahu in Budapest. "Its partisan attitude has been demonstrated in its decisions on Israel." Hungary will not participate in this, he added. He added that his country was denouncing the Rome Statute, the founding document of the ICC.

Netanyahu thanked Orban for the support Israel receives from Hungary. By announcing Hungary's withdrawal from the ICC, Orban had shown a "courageous and principled stance", Netanyahu said. The ICC had issued an international arrest warrant against Netanyahu in November last year for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza war. Netanyahu rejects the accusations and claims that the International Criminal Court wants to deny Israel the right to self-defense in the fight against the terrorist militia Hamas in the Gaza Strip.