The Polish government adopted on Thursday a resolution vowing to guarantee the safety and freedom of participation for Israel’s highest representatives, including Benjamin Netanyahu as Prime Minister, who decide to attend the commemorations of the 80th anniversary celebrations of Auschwitz Birkenau at the end of this month.

Last year, after the International Criminal Court (ICC), the world’s most prestigious war crimes court, issued a warrant of arrest for Netanyahu and others, it became known that he was a suspect internationally. The court accused them of crimes against humanity in relation to the Gaza war.

The resolution released by the office for Prime Minister Donald Tusk stated that “the Polish government considers the safe participation by leaders of Israel at the commemorations of January 27, 2025 as a way to pay tribute to the Jewish people, whose millions of daughters and sons were victims of the Holocaust perpetrated by the Third Reich.”

The statement was released by the government after Andrzej Tusk, the Polish president, asked Duda to make sure that Netanyahu could attend the conference without being arrested.

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German forces occupied Poland in the beginning of World War II, and established a system of death camps and ghettos where they murdered millions of Jews.

Reports had suggested that the arrest warrant would prevent Netanyahu from attending the commemorations marking the anniversary of liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau by Soviet forces in 1945 on January 27.

Poland and other ICC member countries are obliged to hold suspects who have a warrant if the suspects enter their territory, but there is no way for the court to enforce this. Israel does not recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC.

The court is composed of more than 120 members, although some countries have said they will not arrest him. Hungarian Prime Minster Viktor Orban said that he would even defy this warrant by inviting Netanyahu into Hungary.

Even if Netanyahu was interested in attending, it wasn’t clear. The Polish Foreign Ministry stated earlier Thursday that it “has not received any indication so far that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will attend the celebrations of the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz.”

It added that “Poland is safe and any leader who visits Poland has the right to receive protection from the Ministry of the Interior.” The ministry said that the idea that Netanyahu might be arrested in Poland was “fake” news that had been spread by American media.

International officials will attend the commemoration, as well as elderly survivors. The commemoration will take place in Oswiecim – a town which was occupied by the Germans during World War II.

Auschwitz was the site of more than 1.1 millions murders. Historians estimate that about a half-million of the victims were Jews, but there were also Poles, Romas, Soviet prisoners of War, and other victims.