JERUSALEM - ISRAEL on Sunday called for an international arrest warrant against Hassan Nasrallah after a German magazine linked his Hezbollah group to former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri's murder.

'The report in Der Spiegel on Nasrallah's direct involvement in the assassination of Hariri should raise concern in the entire international community,' Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told reporters in Jerusalem.

'He should have an international arrest warrant issued against him, and if not, he should be arrested by force,' he said.

Germany's Der Spiegel reported on Saturday that the UN commission probing the Hariri murder had new evidence that Hezbollah special forces 'planned and executed' the Beirut car bombing which killed the former billionaire prime minister and 22 others in February 2005.

Hezbollah dismissed the report as 'pure fabrication aimed at influencing the election campaign (ahead of June 12 polls) and to deflect attention from the news about the dismantling of spy networks working for Israel.'

Israel and the Shiite militant group Hezbollah fought a 34-day war in July-August 2006 that killed more than 1,200 Lebanese, mostly civilians, and more than 160 Israelis, mostly soldiers. -- AFP