Shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu arrived in Hungary last week, officials from the International Criminal Court submitted a formal request to the Hungarian authorities, urging them to hand him over.
According to a report from Channel 12, the ICC’s appeal included a call for Netanyahu’s temporary detention in accordance with the Rome Statute, the treaty that governs the court. The request cited several controversial allegations, among them: “use of starvation as a weapon of war,” “crimes against humanity,” and “attacking civilian areas.”
The court insisted that the request remain strictly confidential in order to preserve the integrity of the judicial process leading up to a possible arrest.
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