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Friedrich Mirz, the winner of the election in Germany, Benjamin Netanyahu, told him that he would be invited to visit the European state despite the distinguished arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court of War Crime in Gaza, according to the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office.

Mirz, who is expected to become the next German advisor, told reporters on Monday that he spoke with Netanyahu and said he would find “roads and means” to visit Germany.

He did not explain how the country, a party to the Rome Law that established the International Criminal Court, will comply with its obligations to arrest and hand him over to the trial.

Netanyahu and a former defense minister, Yov Galent, face the possibility of arrest in 124 countries – including all the European Union, the United Kingdom, many Asia and Africa – for “the crime of war from hunger as a means of war; crimes against humanity, persecution and other inhumane acts.”

Both deny these allegations, describing them as anti -Semitic.

But while other European countries, including France and Poland, have indicated some contradiction over the arrest of the Israeli leader, an official invitation from Mirz will place Germany Besides Hungary Orbán, it clearly stated that they will put their obligations aside under their national and international laws by hosting Netanyahu.

Netanyahu’s office said that the invitation will be “the public challenge of the explicit international criminal court decision to name the Prime Minister as a war criminal.”

Mirz’s invitation is not a departure from the current policy in Germany, where leaders are arguing through the political spectrum that they bear the responsibility of supporting Israel as part of the country’s atonement for the Holocaust.

The CDU leader, who last year accused Chancellor Olaf Schulz of raising the delivery of weapons to Israel, described his country’s relationship with the Jewish state “unique – without any case or buts.

A spokesman for the Schulz said last year that he was Germany is unlikely You will consider the arrest of Netanyahu, given “the great responsibility towards Israel.”

But the successful visit of the state by Netanyahu to a major European country like Germany represents an unprecedented threat to the court’s authority, which does not allow member states to decide whether they are implemented, not enforced or not.

Italy recently allowed the Libyan War to be liberated after the first arrest of Turin, but it was cited by a procedural technique in doing so.

Netanyahu traveled abroad only once, to the United States, where arrest orders were issued in November 2024, where President Donald Trump, who had been sanctions against the International Criminal Court to issue orders. The United States is not signed on the statue of Rome.

But Israel’s public broadcaster had informed at the time that the official Netanyahu plane deliberately avoided the Canadian airspace to keep the possibility of arrest if the plane was forced to land due to a technical failure.

The International Criminal Court Prosecutor also requested orders of three Hamas commanders of war crimes over their role in the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, where local officials say 1,200 people have been killed and take about 250 hostages. It is now believed that the three have died.

The fierce military attack of Israel in response to the October 7 attacks killed nearly 50,000 Palestinians, according to local health officials – most of them women and children – most of the infrastructure in the besieged pocket and brought many Gaza population of 2.3 million to the famine.

Israel is also not signed by the Rome Law, and it denies that the court has any jurisdiction. However, the International Criminal Court ruled that it has a judicial authority over the so -called “the situation in Palestine” because the state of Palestine is signed on the Rome Law.

Netanyahu is not the only global leader who seeks to curb the international criminal court. Russian President Vladimir Putin tested the commitment of countries in the International Criminal Court to their treaties through a successful government visit to Mongolia in September last year.

Putin had overcome a planned visit to South Africa in 2023 after accusing it of the war crimes that included Ukraine, after the South African authorities refused to give up its legal obligations.