Poland adopted a resolution protecting Netanyahu from arrest if he attends the commemoration of the liberation in Auschwitz

• The United Nations International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others in connection with the war in Gaza, charging them with crimes against humanity.
• ICC member states, such as Poland, are required to detain suspects facing warrants if they step onto their soil, but the court has no way of enforcing this.
• The Polish government passed a resolution ensuring the free and safe participation of Israeli representatives attending commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 27.

The Polish government adopted a resolution on Thursday pledging to ensure the free and safe participation of Israel’s top representatives — including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — who have decided to attend commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau later this month.

Netanyahu became an internationally wanted suspect last year after the International Criminal Court, the world’s largest war crimes court, issued an arrest warrant for him and others in connection with the Gaza war, charging them with crimes against humanity.

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“The Polish government treats safe participation leaders of Israel at the commemorations on January 27, 2025, as part of the tribute to the Jewish people, whose millions of sons and daughters became victims of the Holocaust perpetrated by the Third Reich,” reads the resolution published by Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s office.

The government released the statement after Polish President Andrzej Duda asked Tusk to ensure Netanyahu could attend without risking arrest.

German forces occupied Poland at the beginning of World War II and established a system of ghettos and death camps where they killed millions of Jews and others.

There were reports that suggested the arrest warrant could prevent Netanyahu from traveling to Poland to attend ceremonies marking the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in 1945 by Soviet forces on January 27. There were reports that suggested the arrest warrant could prevent Netanyahu from traveling to Poland to attend ceremonies marking the anniversary of the 1945 liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp by Soviet forces on January 27.

ICC member states, such as Poland, are required to detain suspects facing warrants if they step onto their soil, but the court has no way of enforcing this. Israel is not a member of the ICC and disputes its jurisdiction.

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The court has more than 120 member states, although some countries, including France, have already said they will not arrest him. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán even said he would defy the order by inviting Netanyahu to Hungary.

It was not even clear if Netanyahu wanted to attend the event. Poland’s foreign ministry said earlier Thursday that it had “so far received no information indicating that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will attend the 80th anniversary celebration liberation of Auschwitz.”

“Poland is a safe country and any leader who visits Poland is entitled to protection granted by the Ministry of the Interior,” it added. The ministry also suggested that any idea that Netanyahu might be arrested in Poland was “fake news” spread by the US media.

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The commemoration will be attended by international officials and elderly survivors. It will be held in Oswiecim, a city that was under German occupation during the war.

More than 1.1 million people were killed in Auschwitz. Historians say that most of them, about a million, were Jews, but the victims included Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war and others.