Hungary will withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), its government said Wednesday, as the country’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban welcomed Israeli Prime Minister and ICC fugitive Benjamin Netanyahu to Budapest.

Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu applauded Hungary for its "bold and principled" decision to leave the International Criminal Court as he visited Budapest on Thursday, a rare trip abroad in defiance of an ICC arrest warrant.

Rather than comply with the order, Orban's government initiated proceedings to withdraw from the international tribunal The post ICC sent Hungary a request to arrest and surrender Netanyahu hours after his arrival appeared first on The Times of Israel.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he would like the war in Gaza to stop, as he hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House.

Before President Barack Obama was sworn into office in 2009, Benjamin Netanyahu called the Israeli diplomat Alon Pinkas out of the blue and asked for a lesson in what was essentially a foreign tongue: the language of Democrats.

The pair are expected to discuss the war in Gaza and the return of hostages, following the breakdown of a fragile ceasefire with Hamas Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the first foreign leader to visit Trump since the tariffs announcement last week.