German Foreign Minister calls for a ceasefire between the Jewish state and the Palestinian Hamas ruling the Gaza Strip on Thursday (20/5) Haiko Maas expressing his “solidarity” with Israel.
«We believe that what Israel is doing (in the Gaza Strip) is covered by the right to self-defense“Maas said during a joint press conference he gave from Tel Aviv with his Israeli counterpart Gabi Ashkenazi, as broadcast by the Athens News Agency.”
«Israel is currently exercising this right and this right stipulates that facilities from which attacks on Israeli targets are not allowed to continue to operate.The German minister added as soon as he arrived in Tel Aviv, referring to the intensive Israeli raids on the Palestinian enclave for the past 10 days in response to the rockets fired from there against the Jewish state.
“Let me repeat this clearly: for us the security of Israel and with it the security of all Jews in Germany “It is non-negotiable and Israel can always rely on it,” he said, according to the Athens News Agency.
However, according to Maas, “the number of victims is increasing every day and this also worries us a lot. That is why we support the international efforts to achieve a ceasefire and we are also convinced that the violence must end immediately, for the benefit of the people. “
Following his visit to Israel, Maas is expected to meet late in the afternoon with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank. The German minister will not have direct talks with Hamas, an organization that has been described as “terrorist” by the EU.
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