06/05/2025June 5, 2025
German Foreign Minister Wadephul hosts Israeli counterpart, Gideon Saar
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar will meet with his German counterpart, , in Berlin on Thursday, a day after Wadephul promised that Germany would send more arms to Israel despite growing international calls for a weapons embargo.
In the morning, the two top diplomats are scheduled to lay a wreath at Berlin’s Memorial, which commemorates the murder and persecution of Jews in Europe under Germany’s Nazi regime from 1933 to 1945.
Saar’s official visit is to conclude with a joint press conference at the Foreign Ministry in the early afternoon.
Several human rights groups and NGOs are planning a rally in front of the ministry in protest against , which has killed thens of thousands and caused a
Wadephul’s promise of more arms deliveries to Israel on Wednesday came as an apparent reversal of comments made to the German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung last week.
There, he suggested that further arms shipments to Israel were dependent on a government review of whether Israeli actions in complied with international humanitarian law.
Israel launched its offensive in the Gaza Strip in response to raids led by the Palestinian militant group in southern Israel on October 7, 2023, in which some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were killed and some 250 hostages were taken.
The country is now coming under increasing international pressure to stop its military operation in view of the desolate humanitarian situation in the
The parliamentary session on Wednesday where Wadephul was questioned on Germany’s Israel policy was disrupted when Left Party lawmaker Cansin Köktürk was ordered to leave the room because she was wearing a T-shirt with “Palestine” written on it. Bundestag President Julia Klöckner accused Köktürk of being in contravention of rules banning political slogans on clothing in parliament.
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