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German winner of the election of Friedrich Merz told Benjamin Netanyahu that he would be invited to visit the European country despite the extraordinary order for the arrest of the International Criminal Court of War Crimes in Gaza, according to the Israeli Office of the Israeli Prime Minister.
Merz, who is expected to become the next German chancellor, told reporters on Monday that he had talked to Netanyahu and said he would find “ways and funds” for him to visit Germany.
He did not explain that the country, the party in the Roman statute that founded the ICC, would fulfill its obligations to arrest Netanyahu and hand it over to the faced trial.
Netanyahu and former Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant, face the appearance of arrests in 124 countries – including the entire EU, the UK and most of Asia and Africa – because of “war crime crime as a method of warfare; and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution and other inhumane acts. ”
They both deny the allegations, describing them as anti -Semitic.
But although other European nations, including France and Poland, signaled a certain ambivalence over the arrest of the Israeli leader, a formal call from Merz would set Germany In addition to Hungarian Viktor Orbán, it is clear that they will abolish their obligations to their national and international law host Netanyahu.
Netanyahu’s office said the call would be “open to defiance of the scandalous International Criminal Court’s pronunciation to prime war criminal.”
Merz’s call is not a deviation from the existing policy in Germany, where leaders across the political spectrum claim that they have responsibility to support Israel as part of the reconciliation of the country for the Holocaust.
The CDU leader, who accused Chancellor Olaf Scholz last year of holding the delivery of weapons to Israel, previously described his country’s attitude towards the Jewish state as “unique -without IFS or NOTS”.
Scholz’s spokesman said last year that he is unlikely that Germany He would consider the arrest of Netanyahu, given the “great responsibility for Israel” of the nation.
However, a successful national visit to Netanyahu to the great European nation like Germany would represent an unprecedented threat of court authority, which does not allow the Member States to unilaterally decide whether or not to carry out the underdogs.
Italy has recently allowed the infamous Libyan warrior to be released after initial arrest in Turin, but quoted the procedural technique.
Netanyahu traveled abroad only once, in the US, since the arrest warranty warranty order was issued in November 2024, where he was greeted by President Donald Trump, who put sanctions on ICC at the ICC. Now they are not the signatory of the statue of Rome.
But the Israeli public television house Kan reported at the time that the Netanyahu’s official plane had deliberately avoided Canadian airspace to prevent the ability to arrest if the plane was forced to land due to a technical failure.
The ICC prosecutor also initially requested orders for three war crimes Hamas leaders for their role in the attack on October 7, 2023. On Israel, in which local officials were killed by 1,200 people and about 250 taken hostages. All three are thought to be dead.
Israeli fierce military offensives in response to attacks on October 7th killed nearly 50,000 Palestinians, according to local health officials – most of whom are women and children – destroyed most of the infrastructure in the besieged endlack and brought a large part of the Gaza population of 2.3 mn on Ivica hunger. .
Israel is also not the signatory of the Roman statute and denies that the court has any jurisdiction over it. But ICC ruled that he was competent for the so -called “Palestinian situation” because the state of Palestine was the signatory of the Roman statute.
Netanyahu is not the only world leader who wants to suppress the authority of ICC. Russian President Vladimir Putin has already tested the commitment to the ICC states, according to their contractual obligations with a successful state visit to Mongolia in September last year.
Putin skipped a planned visit to South Africa in 2023 after being charged with war crimes involved in Ukraine, after the South African authorities refused to give up their legal obligations.