(ANSA-AFP) - BUDAPEST, APR 3 - Hungary's government announced Thursday that it would withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), just before Prime Minister Viktor Orban was to receive his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu despite an ICC arrest warrant against him. Orban extended an invitation to Netanyahu last November, saying Hungary would not execute the warrant, a day after the ICC issued the arrest warrant against the Israeli premier over alleged war crimes in Gaza. The announcement comes after Netanyahu arrived in Budapest early Thursday on his first trip to Europe since the start of Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza in 2023. "Hungary exits the International Criminal Court," Orban's chief of staff Gergely Gulyas posted on Facebook. (ANSA-AFP).