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The assurances got here after Poland’s President Andrzej Duda, from the opposition Law and Justice party, this week requested the federal government to permit Netanyahu to attend the occasion. Duda wrote to Tusk’s authorities requesting Netanyahu not be arrested if he units foot on Polish soil to attend the commemoration, which is able to happen on Jan. 27, his spokesperson confirmed Thursday.
Netanyahu is the topic of an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant issued in November final 12 months for alleged warfare crimes in Gaza.
Israel has been finishing up a army offensive within the enclave since October 2023, killing tens of hundreds of individuals because it makes an attempt to root out Hamas in response to the Palestinian militant group’s Oct. 7, 2023, assault towards Israel.
The ICC warrant means Netanyahu could possibly be arrested if he travels to any of the 120 international locations which are events to the ICC — although some, together with France and Hungary, have declared they won’t arrest him.
According to Polish media outlet Interia, which obtained a duplicate of Duda’s letter, the president wrote: “The authorities of Poland ought to assure [Netanyahu] an undisturbed keep on the territory of our nation in these completely distinctive circumstances.”
Netanyahu has not publicly expressed a need to attend the commemoration, nor was he invited to take action by its organizer, the Auschwitz Museum, which instructed Polish media it had solely prolonged invites to Holocaust survivors.
