Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu begins on Thursday (2) visits for four days to Hungary, which challenges an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC) for allegations of war crimes in Gaza.
Israel rejected the accusations, claiming that it was driven politically and pushed by anti -Semitism.
How do you work?
The Rome Law, which is based on the International Criminal Court, obliges all the 124 states signed by the court to arrest any individual and submit any individual to the court’s arrest memorandum if it is A step in its territory.
However, the application of this rule is difficult and depends on the cooperation of member states, says Jerry Simpson, a professor of international law at the London College of Economics.
“There is a legal issue and a political issue here. The political issue revolves around the relationship between diplomacy and the law,” Simpson said.
A Issuing TPI detention order It does not automatically restrict the freedom to travel to the individual. However, as soon as the arrest warrant is issued, a person risks a case of traveling to a signed case of the International Criminal Court, which can affect their decisions.
What happens when states do not meet?
The penalty for not arresting someone is to refer the case to the Association of Member States of the International Criminal Court and eventually a referral to the United Nations Security Council.
There were several occasions when the signed countries did not Fulfillment of this commitment.
Sudanese President Omar Al -Bashaer, who was accused of genocide in Darfur, remained in office for another decade until he was removed in a coup.
While he was in power, he traveled to many Arab and African countries, including TPI member states such as Chad, Djibutde, Jordan, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa and Uganda, who refused to stop him.
The court decides these countries or referred them to the United Nations Security Council for lack of consensus. Since then, Al -Bashir has been prosecuted in Sudan for other crimes, but it has not been delivered to the International Criminal Court.
What countries signed in the International Criminal Court?
Russia signed the Rome Law in 2000, but withdrew its support in 2016 after the International Criminal Court classified the annexation of the Peninsula of the Peninsula of the Peninsula of the Crimea as an armed conflict.
The United States, China, Israel and Iran are among the countries that do not sign the International Criminal Court, and therefore are not required to stop or hand over the accused individuals.
Other people are accused or with arrest orders
Kenya Presentent William Ruto and HIS PREDECESOR, UHURU KENYATTA, Were Account by the ICC Before Being Elected. The accusations were withdrawn against them later. Kenyatta is the only leader who attended TPI while he is still in office.
One of the most prominent fleeing is Russian President Vladimir Putin, accused of the crime of war for illegally deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine.
S. TPI issued an arrest warrant against Putin In March 2023. The Kremlin considered the unimportant measure. Moscow has repeatedly denied accusations that its forces committed atrocities during the invasion of Ukraine.
The Al -Murouj International Criminal Court also issued arrest orders against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Minister of Defense, in addition to three Hamas leaders due to the alleged war crimes and humanitarian crimes.
Both Israeli leaders and enthusiasm rejected the accusations and criticized the decision of the Public Prosecutor, Karim Khan.
