Hungary’s Prime Minister-elect Peter Magyar said on Tuesday that his country must take Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into custody if he entered Hungarian territory under the International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant sent out in 2024 for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
“If a country is a member of the ICC and a person who is wanted by the ICC enters our territory, then that person must be taken into custody,” Magyar told reporters, confirming his intention to align with international law, TRT World reports. It signalled a policy shift that could reshape both EU diplomacy and Budapest’s stance on Israel since Victor Orban, ex-prime minister of Hungary for the past 16 years, who Magyar won against with a landslide last week.
Hungary had previously refused to act on the warrant during Netanyahu’s April 2025 visit under former Orban.