Hungary condemns the “legal attack” launched against Israel in the International Court of Justice, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said after a phone call with his new Israeli counterpart on Tuesday.
In a Facebook post, Szijjártó noted that he and Foreign Minister Israel Katz had met four years ago when Katz had been in charge of transport.
“Today I congratulated him on the phone on taking office, and we reviewed the situation in the Middle East,” Szijjártó said. “I told my counterpart that Hungary condemns the legal attack launched against Israel in the International Court of Justice in The Hague: accusing a country that has suffered a terrorist attack of committing genocide is obviously nonsense.”
The minister reaffirmed Hungary’s support for Israel’s right to self-defence.
Hungary believes the success of Israel’s current counter-terrorism operations is in the entire world’s interest, so that a repeat of the “brutal terrorist attack” suffered by Israel can be prevented, Szijjártó said.
Szijjártó said he and Katz had also discussed the Gaza hostage situation and were in agreement that Hamas needed to release all of the hostages as soon as possible. He added that Hungary and Israel were doing everything they could to secure the release of the dual Israeli-Hungarian citizen still being held hostage.
Szijjártó added that he and Katz will continue their talks in person in Jerusalem next week.
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Looks like Mr Szijjártó is really young, or he does not know Hungarian history. Hungary has its revolution agains occupiers (Russia, in that period of time) And Hungary had the right to defend itself. Palenstina has beed under occupation for so long, and, while I would call Hamas as Terrorits, Israel is still doing crimes in the west bank. Why palestinians can not defend them self agains the occipiers? Why the double standarts?
What is this nonsense
Occupier does not have the right to practice self defense in occupied territories !
in England if you are from Palestine are called OTP (occupied territories of Palestine)
I highly suggest Hungarians to watch the meeting of Dr Máté with Piers Morgan
https://youtu.be/ph9XF39yjgU?si=QfHrAn-ByYrE_3Rk
It is amazing that how many people ignore news or history. Gaza is not occupied and has not been occupied by Israel since 2005. Israel evacuated every Jewish settler from there, left behind hot houses, stores and houses.
Since evacuation, Israel supplied Gaza with electricity, clean water and jobs. The thanks Israel got from terrorist supporting palestinians is beheading Israeli babies, burning the babes in ovens, raping women, murdering young and old and taking innocent people as hostages. The murder included a Hungarian compatriot. Israel has the right to eliminate hamas and other terrorists’ groups.
If anyone deserves support is the people of Israel. So, stop with the occupation lies of Gaza and the West Bank, the occupation is a fallacy and an excuse for antisemitism.