German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who entered his position earlier this month, slammed Israel this week, making the harshest statements against the Jewish state about the war in Gaza ever made by a senior official of the country where the Holocaust originated. Merz said that he “no longer understands what the Israeli army is doing now in the Gaza Strip, and what its goal is. The harassment of the civilian population, as has been increasing in recent days can no longer be justified as a fight against Hamas terrorism,” he claimed “When red lines are crossed, when international humanitarian law is violated, then even a German chancellor must respond,” he said.
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