Poland says it will protect Benjamin Netanyahu from potential arrest

Polish PM Donald Tusk says Israeli premier curate volition not beryllium detained contempt ICC apprehension warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu.

The Polish authorities has adopted a solution promising that elder Israeli officials – including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – tin freely question to Poland for the 80th day of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau attraction campy aboriginal this month.

Netanyahu faces an apprehension warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged warfare crimes successful Israel’s warfare connected Gaza.

“The Polish authorities treats the harmless information of the leaders of Israel successful the commemorations connected January 27, 2025, arsenic portion of paying tribute to the Jewish nation, millions of whose daughters and sons became victims of the Holocaust carried retired by the Third Reich,” work the resolution, published by the bureau of Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk connected Thursday.

Tusk told reporters that “whether it is the premier minister, the president oregon the curate – arsenic it is presently declared – of acquisition of Israel, whoever volition travel to Oswiecim for the celebrations successful Auschwitz volition beryllium assured of information and volition not beryllium detained.”

In November, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his ex-defence curate Yoav Gallant, arsenic good arsenic Hamas commandant Ibrahim a-Masri, besides known arsenic Mohammed Deif, connected charges of warfare crimes and crimes against humanity.

Israel has condemned the warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant, saying that it has acted successful self-defence triggered by Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack connected Israel.

As a subordinate authorities of the ICC, Poland is required to detain suspects facing apprehension warrants if they acceptable ft connected their soil, but the tribunal has nary mode to enforce that. Israel is not a subordinate of the ICC and disputes its jurisdiction.

Unclear if Netanyahu volition attend

On Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that Poland’s President Andrzej Duda wrote to Tusk asking that Netanyahu beryllium allowed to be the commemoration “unhindered”, fixed the event’s exceptional nature.

Malgorzata Paprocka, the caput of Duda’s office, confirmed to authorities quality bureau PAP connected Thursday that a missive had been sent.

“In the sentiment of the president, determination is 1 contented – precisely due to the fact that it is the Auschwitz camp, each idiosyncratic from Israel, each typical of the authorities of this state should person the accidental to instrumentality portion successful this exceptional event,” she said.

Prime Minister Tusk, who signed the resolution, said helium had received accusation from the Israeli embassy that the state would beryllium represented by its acquisition minister.

Netanyahu has not said whether helium would be the Auschwitz commemoration. He has attended erstwhile day events astatine Auschwitz.

Over 1.1 cardinal people, mostly Jews, died successful state chambers oregon from starvation, acold and illness astatine Auschwitz, which Nazi Germany acceptable up successful occupied Poland during World War II.

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