Dar es Salaam, April 3 -- The move comes as no surprise after Orban sought to directly defy the court by sending Netanyahu an invite the day after the ICC issued an arrest warrant for the Israeli prime minister over alleged war crimes in Gaza.

Israel has rejected the ICC allegations as antisemitic.

It is obligatory for any ICC member to carry out an arrest warrant, however, Hungarian lawmakers have said that although the country signed the ICCs founding document in 1999 and ratified it in 2001, it was never made part of Hungarian law.

It is expected that the Hungarian parliament, dominated by Orbans Fidesz party, will pass the bill to begin the year-long process of withdrawing from the ICC.

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