Amnesty slams Hungary’s ICC exit as a ‘betrayal’ of war crime victims
The rights group Amnesty International has condemned Hungary’s decision to withdraw from the ICC, describing it as a “betrayal of all victims of war crimes”.
The UK-based group’s secretary-general, Agnes Callamard, said leaders and officials from ICC member states must not undermine the court by meeting Netanyahu or other wanted fugitives.
“By welcoming Netanyahu, Hungary is effectively giving a seal of approval to Israel’s genocide, namely the physical destruction of the Palestinian people in whole or in part in Gaza,” Callamard said.
“Hungary’s purported withdrawal from the ICC is a brazen and futile attempt to evade international justice and to stymy the ICC’s work.
“Its withdrawal is a betrayal of all victims of war crimes and undermines the protections afforded the Hungarian people as it removes, in a year, their opportunity to seek justice at the ICC for crimes committed against them.”
Hungary should be thrown out of the EU with Orban licking Putin's and Netanyahu's boots.
Netanyahu coming to US to talk about ‘Gaza problem’: Trump
Speaking on Air Force One, US President Donald Trump says Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will soon visit Washington for talks on the dire situation in Gaza.
“I spoke to him today, in fact, and I think he’s going to come to our country in the not-so-distant future, maybe next week,” Trump told reporters.
“We’re going to try and solve the Gaza problem, it’s been a big, big problem for many decades. If you notice hostages are being released now, and that’s happened only since I got involved. I’d like to get as many hostages as we can.”
Trump described Gaza as a “very important thing”.
“It’s been under siege for many years. It’s a shame. A lot of people die in Gaza. A lot of bad things happen in Gaza. We’ll see what we can do about it.”
Nothing good, that's for sure.
Oscar-winning Palestinian director speaks at UN on illegal Israeli settlements
Palestinian director Basel Adra, who won an Oscar this year for co-directing a documentary on Israeli violence in the occupied West Bank, sounded the alarm at the UN saying the situation is worsening despite the film’s success.
Adra was invited to speak by the UN Committee on the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People at a screening of his film, No Other Land.
The documentary chronicles the forced displacement of Palestinians by Israeli troops and settlers in Masafer Yatta – an area Israel declared a “restricted military zone” in the 1980s.
“I wanted the world to know that we live in this land, that we exist, and to see what we face on daily basis, this brutal occupation,” Adra told the UN.
“Even after winning the Oscar, we went back to the same reality,” Adra said, adding it’s “only changing from worse to worse”.
“Almost every day, there are settler attacks on Masafer Yatta and all over communities across the West Bank.”
