Benjamin Netanyahu would be welcome in Italy, Deputy Premier, Transport Minister and right-wing League party leader Matteo Salvini said a day after the Israeli prime minister was charged with war crimes in Gaza by the International Criminal Court.
"I plan to meet with members of the Israeli government soon and if Netanyahu came to Italy he would be welcome. The war criminals are others" said Salvini.
He said it was "disrespectful" to call "the prime minister of one of the few democracies in the Middle East" a war criminal.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Friday invited Netanyahu to Budapest saying he was "challenging" the ICC's veridct on the Israeli prime minister, his ex defence minister and the late head of Hamas.
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