BERLIN (AA) — Germany has recalled its ambassador to Tehran and summoned the Iranian chargé d’affaires in Berlin following the execution of German-Iranian dissident Jamshid Sharmahd. “We have expressed our strong protest against the actions of the Iranian regime and reserve the right to take further action,” the German Foreign Ministry s...
BERLIN (AA) – The images emerging from Gaza showing burned children and civilians after Israeli airstrikes are “horrendous,” German Foreign Ministry spokesman Sebastian Fischer has said. He made the remarks in response to a question about Israeli military’s airstrike in the early hours of the day, targeting tents of displaced Palestinian...
BERLIN (AA) – A group of lawyers has filed a criminal complaint against top German government officials for supporting Israel’s war crimes and “genocide” against Palestinians. Nadija Samour, one of the lawyers, said that German politicians, including Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, are responsib...
BERLIN (AA) – Israel’s “right to self-defense” does not include the expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza, Germany’s foreign minister said on the eve of a visit to Tel Aviv. “I would like to emphasize again that the right to self-defense applies, and that every country, like Israel, has the right to defend itself against terror...
ATHENS (AA) – Germany has said that an Israeli attack on Rafah in Gaza would lead to a humanitarian catastrophe. “The plight in Rafah is already incredible. 1.3 million people are seeking protection from the fighting in a very small area. An offensive by the Israeli army on Rafah would be a humanitarian catastrophe in […]
BERLIN (AA) — German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has warned Israel against a military attack in the southernmost city of the Gaza Strip. “To act now in Rafah, in the last and most crowded place, as announced by the Israeli defense minister, would simply not be justified,” Baerbock said in an interview with the RND […]
BERLIN (AA) – German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has criticized Israel’s policy of constructing and expanding illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian territories. “The construction of settlements is illegal. It undermines lasting peace and endangers the two-state solution and thereby endangers Israel’s security,” Baerboc...
BEIRUT (AA) – Foreign Minister Abdullah Bou Habib has urged a “comprehensive package” to implement UN Resolution 1701, including Israel’s withdrawal from occupied areas in Lebanon and the cessation of ground, maritime and aerial violations, according to the Lebanese Foreign Ministry. Habib emphasized that there can be “no comprehensive p...
BERLIN (AA) – Germany has rejected growing calls for a cease-fire in Gaza and reaffirmed its support for Israel’s strikes which have claimed more than 11,100 lives, many of them children. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock expressed doubts about a cease-fire, arguing that it was not clear how this could be negotiated, how it could [&hel...
BERLIN (AA) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has warned Iran and Lebanon-based Hezbollah organization against intervening in Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza. Scholz told the German parliament in Berlin that a spillover of the conflict “would be devastating for the entire region and that is why it is now important that we do everything we [&h...
