Polish president seeks protection for Netanyahu if he attends Auschwitz anniversary event

Poland’s President Andrzej Duda is asking the country’s government to ensure that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can attend observances marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz later this month without the risk of being arrested. An aide to Duda confirmed the request to the government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk, and that Duda is still awaiting a response. Netanyahu became an internationally wanted suspect after the world’s top war-crimes court issued an arrest warrant for him in November in connection with the 15-month war in Gaza. The anniversary of the liberation in 1945 of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp by Soviet forces will take place on Jan. 27.