Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not attend the event dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland for fear of being arrested and handed over to the International Criminal Court (ICC). This was reported by the media site Middle East Eye with reference to Polish media.
Warsaw is obliged to respect the decisions of the ICC, Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Wladyslaw Bartoszewski told the Rzeczpospolita newspaper.
It should be noted that last month the court in The Hague issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Yoav Galant, Israel’s former defense minister. Both are accused of the “war crime of starvation as a method of warfare and crimes against humanity in the form of murder, persecution and other inhumane acts” during the war in the Gaza Strip, which began after a Hamas attack on Oct. 7 last year. All 124 signatories to the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the ICC, are now obliged to arrest and try Netanyahu and Galant. Poland is among them.
According to Rzeczpospolita, neither Netanyahu nor Israeli President Yitzhak Herzog will attend the Auschwitz event on January 27. Education Minister Yoav Kish is expected to attend.
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