JERUSALEM, March 18 — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz questioned the “terribly high costs” of Israel’s offensive on Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Gaza yesterday, saying...
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz questioned the terribly high costs of Israel’s offensive on Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Gaza yesterday, saying the world could not simply stand by and watch as Palestinians risk starvation in the enclave.
Germany has been one of Israel’s staunchest allies alongside the United States, underlining its duty to stand by the country’s side in atonement for its perpetration of the Nazi Holocaust in which 6 million Jews died.“The more desperate the situation of the people in Gaza becomes, the more this begs the question: No matter how important the goal can it justify such terribly high costs, or are there other ways to achieve your goal?” Scholz said in English at a joint appearance with Netanyahu.
Scholz added that he had spoken with Netanyahu about the need for conditions for the distribution of aid to be “urgently and massively improved”. “Lasting security for future generations of Israeli people lies in a solution with the Palestinians, not against them,” he said. “Terror cannot be defeated with military means alone.”
Scholz did not directly answer a question about whether Germany would react to a large-scale Rafah offensive, for example by restricting German weapons exports to Israel.
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