Germany says it will ARREST Benjamin Netanyahu if he sets foot in the country following ICC call to charge him with war crimes - as Israel becomes increasingly isolated over Gaza

Germany volition apprehension Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if helium enters the state amid allegations of warfare crimes by the International Criminal Court, a spokesperson has confirmed.

Steffen Hebestreit, a spokesperson for German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, confirmed connected Wednesday the state would 'abide by the law' and apprehension the under-fire Israeli person should helium sojourn the EU nation.

This comes aft British authoritative Karim Khan announced connected Monday that helium is seeking warrants for Netanyahu, Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, arsenic good arsenic 3 Hamas terror chiefs including Yahya Sinwar, the ruler successful Gaza who masterminded October 7.

Netanyahu labelled the allegations a 'distortion of reality' and accused the authoritative of 'callously pouring gasoline connected the fires of antisemitism that are raging crossed the world'.

Germany's determination comes aft Israel’s Ambassador to Berlin, Ron Prosor, made a hopeless plea to the German authorities to cull the ICC’s projected apprehension warrant.

Taking to X, formerly known arsenic Twitter, connected Tuesday Prosor wrote: “This is outrageous! The German "Staatsräson" is present being enactment to the test—no ifs oregon buts.

‘This contrasts with the anemic statements we perceive from immoderate institutions and governmental actors. The nationalist connection that Israel has the close to self-defense loses credibility if our hands are tied arsenic soon arsenic we support ourselves.’

Staatsräson refers to Germany’s long-standing committedness to the defence of Israel, a argumentation declared by erstwhile Chancellor Angela Merkel during a 2008 code to the Knesset.

Prosor added: ‘The Chief Prosecutor equates a antiauthoritarian authorities with Hamas, thereby demonizing and delegitimizing Israel and the Jewish people.

‘He has wholly mislaid his motivation compass. Germany has a work to readjust this compass.

‘This disgraceful governmental run could go a nail successful the coffin for the West and its institutions. Do not fto it travel to that!’

Netanyahu has furiously condemned the ICC for 'daring to compare' Israel with 'mass murderers' aft an apprehension warrant was issued for some the Israeli premier curate and Hamas leaders.

Israel's Foreign Minister Israel Katz besides slammed the move, calling it an 'unrestrained frontal assault' connected the victims of October 7 and a 'historical disgrace that volition beryllium remembered forever'. He said helium was establishing a task unit to combat against the decision.

In an interrogation connected Monday, authoritative Khan said the warrants are for war crimes and crimes against humanity implicit the Hamas panic group's deadly October 7 onslaught connected Israel and Israel's consequent warfare successful the Gaza Strip.

The ICC's determination has been met with mixed reactions from the planetary community, with Downing Street labelling it 'unhelpful' and US President Joe Biden calling it 'outrageous', portion different satellite leaders said they supported the investigation.

Khan said warrants were being sought for Hamas person Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Diab Ibrahim al-Masri (aka Mohammed Deif), the person of the Al Qassem Brigades - Hamas' subject wing, and Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas' governmental leader.

He told CNN that the charges against the trio see 'extermination, murder, taking of hostages, rape and intersexual battle successful detention.'

 'The satellite was shocked connected the 7th of October erstwhile radical were ripped from their bedrooms, from their homes, from the antithetic kibbutzim successful Israel,' Khan told CNN big Christiane Amanpour, adding that 'people person suffered enormously.'

In a abstracted statement, he said that helium saw for himself 'the devastating scenes of these attacks and the profound interaction of the unconscionable crimes charged successful the applications. 

'Speaking with survivors, I heard however the emotion wrong a family, the deepest bonds betwixt a genitor and a child, were contorted to inflict unfathomable symptom done calculated cruelty and utmost callousness. These acts request accountability.'

He besides said the ICC was applying for warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant for their portion successful the battle connected the Gaza portion which was launched successful the aftermath of October 7 and continues to this day.

'We person applied for warrants – of people the judges indispensable find whether oregon not to contented them, but we person applied today,' helium told Amanpour connected Monday.

He said the charges against Netanyahu and Gallant see 'crimes of causing extermination, causing starvation arsenic a method of warfare including the denial of humanitarian alleviation supplies, deliberately targeting civilians successful conflict.'

Speaking of Israel's actions, Khan said successful a connection that 'the effects of the usage of starvation arsenic a method of warfare, unneurotic with different attacks and corporate punishment against the civilian colonisation of Gaza are acute, disposable and wide known. 

 'They see malnutrition, dehydration, profound suffering and an expanding fig of deaths among the Palestinian population, including babies, different children, and women,' helium added.

Hamas has besides rejected the equivalence to Israel, with the radical saying it 'strongly denounces' the prosecutor's attempts 'to equate the unfortunate with the executioner by issuing apprehension warrants against a fig of Palestinian absorption leaders.'

'Hamas... demands the cancellation of each apprehension warrants issued against leaders of the Palestinian resistance, for violating UN conventions and resolutions,' it added.

Meanwhile elder Israeli officials slammed the ICC's determination to question warrants against Netanyahu and his defence chief.

One slammed the ICC's determination arsenic a 'baseless humor libel' against the country, portion elder figures including President Isaac Herzog called the determination 'outrageous,' saying it 'cannot beryllium accepted by anyone'.

'[The] ICC prosecutor's baseless humor libel against Israel has crossed a reddish enactment successful his lawfare efforts against the lone Jewish authorities and the lone ideology successful the Middle East,' the authoritative said, according to the Financial Times.  

'The humor libel volition not deter Israel from defending itself and accomplishing each its conscionable warfare objectives' successful Gaza, the authoritative added.

'Any effort to gully parallels betwixt these atrocious terrorists and a democratically elected authorities of Israel - moving to fulfil its work to support and support its citizens wholly successful adherence to the principles of planetary instrumentality is outrageous and cannot beryllium accepted by anyone,' President Herzog said.

Benny Gantz, an Israeli warfare furniture minister, called the ICC's determination a 'distortion'.

'Drawing parallels betwixt the leaders of a antiauthoritarian state determined to support itself from despicable panic to leaders of a blood-thirsty panic organisation (Hamas) is simply a heavy distortion of justness and blatant motivation bankruptcy,' helium said.

Israeli overseas curate Israel Katz said helium would 'speak with overseas ministers of starring countries astir the satellite to impulse them to reason the prosecutor's determination and state that adjacent if warrants are issued, they bash not mean to enforce them against Israeli leaders.'

Bezalel Smotrich, a far-right person and concern minister, said the determination was a 'show hypocrisy and Jew-hatred'.

'Arrest warrants against them are apprehension warrants against america all,' helium said. 

Foreign leaders besides rebuked the ICC for seeking the warrants.

A spokesperson for British premier curate Rishi Sunak said: 'This enactment is not adjuvant successful narration to reaching a intermission successful the fighting, getting hostages retired oregon getting humanitarian assistance in.' 

The spokesperson said that the ICC did not person the jurisdiction to petition the apprehension warrants.

'The UK, arsenic with different countries, does not yet recognise Palestine arsenic a authorities and Israel is not a authorities enactment to the Rome Statute', which outlines the ICC's areas of jurisdiction, the spokesperson said. Israel and the US are not signatories.

Asked if the constabulary would apprehension Netanyahu if helium came to Britain, the spokesperson said helium would not remark connected what helium called 'hypotheticals'.

'We afloat respect the independency of the ICC,' Austrian chancellor Karl Nehammer said. 'The information nevertheless that the person of the violent organisation Hamas whose declared extremity is the extinction of the State of Israel is being mentioned astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic the democratically elected representatives of that precise State is non-comprehensible.'

Meanwhile, country's including Belgium and Slovenia said they supported the ICC's ongoing probe and that it indispensable beryllium allowed to tally its course.

'Crimes committed successful Gaza indispensable beryllium prosecuted astatine the highest level, careless of the perpetrators,' Belgian overseas curate Hadja Lahbib said, hailing the apprehension warrants for some Israeli and Hamas officials arsenic an 'important measurement successful the probe of the concern successful Palestine'.

The United Nations and different assistance agencies person repeatedly accused Israel of hindering assistance deliveries passim the war. Israel denies this, saying determination are nary restrictions connected assistance entering Gaza and accusing the UN of failing to administer aid. 

The UN says assistance workers person repeatedly travel nether Israeli fire, and besides says ongoing warring and a information vacuum person impeded deliveries.