German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will travel to Israel on December 6 and 7 for his first official visit since taking office, a German government spokesperson said on Friday.
Archiv: booting Merz
Germany: Resumption of arms transfers to Israel reckless, unlawful and risks complicity in Israel’s international crimes
(November 24, 2025)
“Germany’s decision to lift its partial suspension of weapons shipments to Israel is reckless, unlawful and sends entirely the wrong message to Israel: that it can continue committing genocide, war crimes, and apartheid against Palestinians and unlawfully occupy the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza without fear of consequence.
“Germany is one of Israel’s major arms suppliers. The partial and long overdue suspension of arms transfers by Germany was one of the few forms of meaningful pressure applied by the international community to Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
“Now is absolutely not the time to ease this pressure. On the contrary, this is the time to ensure that Israel stops its violations of international law, including its unlawful occupation as indicated by the International Court of Justice in July 2024 and agreed by the UN General Assembly. Regrettably, with this move, Germany is going down a dangerous path that must be immediately reversed and must not be followed by other states.
The Gaza Precedent: How the World’s Response Will Shape Global Justice
Though Netanyahu continues to act with the same old arrogant attitude that he, his government, and country are above the law, including international law, it is incumbent on all of us to remind him and other war criminals that no individual, no entity, and no government is immune to accountability when it comes to the blood of the innocent.
This struggle is not solely for the sake of Gaza; it is for the very soul of humanity. Should Netanyahu’s actions succeed in normalizing genocide in the 21st century, this horrific crime could become a sanctioned political strategy for tyrants and regimes worldwide. The world cannot afford to let this happen. The future of global justice hangs in the balance.
An den Generalbundesanwalt beim Bundesgerichtshof Jens Rommel
Berlin, den 19. September 2025
Strafantrag
Sehr geehrter Herr Rommel,
hiermit stellen wir Namens und in Vollmacht von ….
S t r a f a n t r a g
wegen sämtlicher in Betracht kommender Straftatbestände, insbesondere aber wegen Beihilfe zum Völkermord gem. § 6 Abs. 1 VStGB i.V.m. § 2 VStGB, § 27 Abs. 1 StGB, Beihilfe zu Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit gem. § 7 Abs. 1, 3, 5 VStGB i.V.m. § 2 VStGB, § 27 Abs. 1 StGB
sowie Beihilfe zu Kriegsverbrechen gem. § 8 Abs. 1 bis 4, § 9ff. VStGB i.V.m. § 2 VStGB, § 27 Abs. 1 StGB
g e g e n
1. Herrn Olaf Scholz, Bundeskanzler a.D.;
2. Frau Annalena Baerbock, Bundesministerin des Auswärtigen a.D.;
3. Herrn Robert Habeck, Bundesminister für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz a.D.;
4. Herrn Friedrich Merz, Bundeskanzler;
5. Herrn Dr. Johann Wadephul, Bundesminister des Auswärtigen;
6. Frau Katherina Reiche, Bundesministerin für Wirtschaft und Energie;
7. Herrn Boris Pistorius, Bundesminister der Verteidigung;
8. Dr. Jörg Stratmann, Geschäftsführer der Rolls-Royce Solutions GmbH;
9. Herrn Dr. Alexander Sagel, Vorstandsvorsitzender der RENK Group AG seit 1. Februar 2025;
10. Frau Susanne Wiegand, Vorstandsvorsitzende der RENK Group AG bis 31. Januar 2025;
11. Michael Humbek, Geschäftsführer der Dynamit Nobel Defence GmbH.
Es wird namens unserer Mandanten beantragt,
1. ein Ermittlungsverfahren gegen die Beschuldigten einzuleiten,
2. die Beschuldigten verantwortlich zu vernehmen,
3. öffentliche Anklage gegen die Beschuldigten zu erheben
Deutsche Beihilfe zum Völkermord: Knast für Kriegsverbrecher
(September 20, 2025)
Konkret wird den elf Beschuldigten zur Last gelegt, mit der Lieferung von Waffen, Komponenten und Ersatzteilen an Israel die Militärmaschinerie des Apartheidstaates zu unterstützen und das genozidale Vorgehen im Gazastreifen erst möglich zu machen. Auf 110 Seiten mit über 600 Fußnoten werden die Anschuldigungen mit Zahlen, Fakten und Expertenaussagen untermauert. Beschuldigt werden neben den eingangs genannten Politikern zudem die beiden amtierenden Minister Johann Wadephul (Auswärtiges Amt) und Katherina Reiche (Wirtschaft und Energie) sowie die Rüstungsmanager Jörg Stratmann (Rolls-Royce Solutions GmbH), Alexander Sagel, Susanne Wiegand (beide Renk Group AG) und Michael Humbek (Dynamit Nobel Defence GmbH).
Still no EU action on Israel, despite Gaza famine
Most Israel sanctions options – such as blacklisting settlers, banning settler imports, or imposing an arms embargo – required EU consensus, meaning the Czechs and Israel‘s other top EU ally, Hungary, would veto them.
Some options – such as freezing Horizon or Israel‘s EU free-trade perks – could be done by a qualified majority in the EU Council, but there was no majority without Germany and Italy on board.
Germany buys $451m of defense tech from Israel’s Rafael, despite Gaza tensions
(August 27, 2025)
Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems on Tuesday announced a €358 million ($415 million) deal with the German Air Force for advanced targeting technology for fighter aircraft.
“The German parliament has authorized the procurement of 90 Litening 5 targeting pods for its Eurofighter Typhoon fleet,” the defense electronics company said in its announcement.
Krieg im Gazastreifen: Deutschland will Israel-Sanktionen nicht zustimmen
Ob der Sanktionsvorschlag der Kommission umgesetzt werden kann, hängt davon ab, ob er im Rat der Mitgliedstaaten die Unterstützung einer qualifizierten Mehrheit bekommt – das heißt: 15 der 27 EU-Staaten, die zusammen mindestens 65 Prozent der Bevölkerung der teilnehmenden Mitgliedstaaten repräsentieren, müssen zustimmen. Zuletzt fehlte nur noch die Unterstützung von Deutschland oder Italien. Alle anderen großen EU-Staaten und viele kleinere sind für die Strafmaßnahme.
Außenministertreffen in Dänemark: Deutschland will Israel-Sanktion nicht zustimmen
Die vorgesehene Einstellung von Zusammenarbeit im Rahmen des Forschungsförderungsprogramms Horizon Europe sei eine Maßnahme, die vermutlich keinen Einfluss auf die politische Willensbildung und auf das militärische Vorgehen Israels im Gazastreifen hätte, betonte Wadephul. Deswegen sei man von diesen Vorschlägen nicht so sehr überzeugt.
Glaubwürdigkeit verlangt Aufarbeitung
Was ist also mit jenen, die schon früh das Richtige gesagt haben? Was ist mit jenen, die das Grauen in Gaza nicht schweigend hingenommen und dafür einen hohen Preis bezahlt haben? Die Liste der Betroffenen ist lang und im Archive of Silence und dem Index of Repression ausführlich dokumentiert. Besonders drastische Beispiele lieferten die Technische Universität München, wo Studierende, die an einer palästinasolidarischen Veranstaltung teilnehmen wollten, von der Polizei in einem Raum eingesperrt und anschließend wegen »Hausfriedensbruch« angezeigt wurden, obwohl sie von der Universität selbst dort hineingelockt worden waren.
Weitere eindrückliche Beispiele sind die Entlassung Melanie Schweizers aus dem Arbeitsministerium, die Absagen gleich mehrerer Veranstaltungen mit der UN-Sonderberichterstatterin Francesca Albanese, die Kündigung von Helen Fares durch den SWR, die rechtswidrige Auflösung des Palästina-Kongresses in Berlin, die Absage der »Talking about (the Silencing of) Palestine«-Konferenz in Frankfurt oder die Einstufung der Jüdischen Stimme für gerechten Frieden und Palästina Spricht als extremistische Organisationen durch den Verfassungsschutz. Die Liste ließe sich endlos fortführen – und sie bleibt notwendig unvollständig.
The UK and 22 international partners gave a joint statement on the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Joint statement by:
foreign ministers of Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission
The decision by the Israeli Higher Planning Committee to approve plans for settlement construction in the E1 area, East of Jerusalem, is unacceptable and a violation of international law.
We condemn this decision and call for its immediate reversal in the strongest terms.
Minister Smotrich says this plan will make a two-state solution impossible by dividing any Palestinian state and restricting Palestinian access to Jerusalem. This brings no benefits to the Israeli people. Instead, it risks undermining security and fuels further violence and instability, taking us further away from peace.
The Government of Israel still has an opportunity to stop the E1 plan going any further. We encourage them to urgently retract this plan.
Unilateral action by the Israeli government undermines our collective desire for security and prosperity in the Middle East. The Israeli government must stop settlement construction in line with UNSC Resolution 2334 and remove their restrictions on the finances of the Palestinian Authority.
REPORT via Channel 13: Leaked Israeli Records Show Government Pursued Starvation Strategy to Force Hamas Surrender
Channel 13 has published internal Israeli government transcripts from March 2025 revealing that Israel’s war cabinet knowingly restricted all humanitarian aid to Gaza in hopes it would break Hamas—a strategy that inflicted mass suffering but failed to deliver desired results. The records also show that Israel was not met with resistance or bad faith in negotiations with Hamas — yet it broke the ceasefire and escalated anyway.
Israeli security cabinet chose starvation policy in Gaza over deal to free captives: Report
Hebrew media cited leaked documents showing that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu actively pursued a policy of starvation in a bid to bring about Hamas’s surrender.
The documents also show that Netanyahu refused to move forward with Phase 2 of the last ceasefire deal – despite internal warnings urging him to secure a release of captives before returning to fighting.
The documents confirmed that Netanyahu and the war cabinet “instructed the [army] to stop all humanitarian aid and close the Rafah crossing” in early March.
Gaza crisis deepens as UN warns children are ‘dying before reaching hospital’
Children in Gaza are dying not just from hunger, but from the total collapse of the systems meant to protect them, UN agencies warned on Tuesday.
With 96 per cent of households lacking clean water, many malnourished children are not surviving long enough to receive hospital care.
James Elder, Spokesperson for the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), told a media briefing in Geneva that it would be a mistake to assume that the situation was improving.
“There’s a sense through the world’s press that things are improving,” he said. “But unless there is sustained humanitarian aid…there will be horrific results.”
Twenty killed after trucks overturn in Gaza, Hamas-run civil defence says
The area was under Israeli military control and the roads were rugged and dangerous, civil defence agency spokesman Mahmoud Basal said.
The private transport association now operating in Gaza said that 26 commercial trucks entered the territory on Tuesday. Six were looted, and four of those overturned, resulting in deaths and injuries.
UN Reports 88 Percent of Aid Trucks Slated for Delivery in Gaza Since May Looted Along Routes
(August 3, 2025)
Data from the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) showed that between May 19 and August 5, more than 2,600 trucks carrying humanitarian aid crossed from Israel into Gaza. However, only 300 of these trucks reached their intended destinations in Gaza during that period, with some 2,309 trucks being “intercepted” and looted along their delivery routes — undermining the recent claim of Tom Fletcher, the UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, that “the vast majority of the aid gets to civilians.” UNOPS’s data did not distinguish between the parties responsible for the interceptions, noting only that the aid was stolen by either “armed actors” or “hungry people.”
Video shows crowds of Palestinians running towards aid trucks in Gaza
(10 hours ago)
U.N. convoys have been repeatedly overwhelmed by looters and desperate crowds in recent days, and witnesses say Israeli forces have repeatedly opened fire. At least 28 Palestinians were killed overnight and into Wednesday in the Morag Corridor, an Israeli military zone in southern Gaza.
‚It‘s like Judgment Day‘: Palestinians in Gaza ‚fight‘ to collect aid
(August 5, 2025)
Israel‘s blockade and military offensive have made it nearly impossible to safely deliver aid, contributing to the territory‘s slide toward famine nearly 22 months into the war with Hamas.
(AP video by Mariam Dagga; Produced by Wafaa Shurafa).
‚Driving blind‘: Gaza truck drivers describe what it‘s like delivering aid
Aug 5, 2025 #israel #gaza
Truck drivers trying to deliver aid inside Gaza say their work has become increasingly dangerous. Crowds of hungry people routinely rip aid off the backs of moving trucks, some trucks are hijacked by armed men working for gangs who sell the aid in Gaza’s markets for exorbitant prices, and Israeli troops often shoot into the chaos.
Gaza death toll from Israeli war tops 61,100, including 193 from starvation
(August 6, 2025)
A ministry statement said that 138 bodies were brought to hospitals in the last 24 hours, while 771 people were injured, taking the number of injuries to 151,442 in the Israeli onslaught.
The ministry also said that five more people died from starvation and malnutrition over the past day, pushing the death toll since October 2023 to 193, including 96 children.
Death by bombardments. Death by malnutrition and starvation. Death by lack of aid and vital services. In Gaza, an average of 28 children a day – the size of a classroom – have been killed.
(August 4, 2025)
Gaza‘s children need food, water, medicine and protection. More than anything, they need a ceasefire, NOW.
Starvation taking ‘absolutely huge’ toll on Gaza’s wounded
…some more quotes from our interview with Victoria Rose, a British consultant plastic Surgeon who’s recently returned from Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.
Asked about the long-term struggles faced by the thousands of wounded people and what care they would have, she replied that “there really is no way” that these patients can be rehabilitated under the current circumstances.
“There’s virtually no infrastructure left; I think 69 percent of all buildings in Gaza have been destroyed and 94 percent of all hospitals have been completely or partially destroyed – and that will include all the physiotherapy centres,” she told Al Jazeera.
Gaza extermination: What is your last thought when you‘re starving to death?
(July 21, 2025)
I have an idea of what runs through a person’s mind as they are about to be killed in an air strike. Most people in Gaza do. We have had those thoughts so often that they are embedded in our nervous system; they will never fully leave, even decades after this genocide ends.
I also understand the type of thoughts that consume people dying due to the lack of medical care. I lived that moment with someone very close to me. I looked into their eyes as they took their final breaths. I could almost hear their thoughts.
But starvation is different. I picture someone lying on a bed, dying in total silence – a silence so powerful it can kill bones, muscles, flesh and blood. A silence stronger than the 125,000 tonnes of explosives that have been dropped on Gaza over the past 21 months. A silence that keeps borders sealed and food blocked from entry.
What do they feel, knowing that they have survived thousands of air strikes, artillery shells, field executions, epidemics and the collapse of the health system, only to die because they could not get the bare minimum calories a human needs to stay alive?
Do they feel betrayed by humanity?
PRESS RELEASE: ‘Blood aid’ and repeated mass displacement create catastrophic humanitarian crisis in Gaza
Copenhagen, 5 August 2025 – A new survey of Palestinian living in Gaza by the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) reveals a harrowing nightmare in Gaza, where a population exhausted by extreme hunger and multiple displacements is being systematically denied safe access to aid.
Based on protection monitoring interviews with people in Gaza from 22 May to 27 July 2025 in 25 displacement sites in Deir al-Balah, Khan Younis, Gaza City and North Gaza, the survey exposes the life-threatening consequences of the American and Israeli-backed distribution scheme and the severe psychological toll on a population with no safe haven. Key findings from the survey show a population at breaking point.
A staggering 70 precent of respondents cited extreme weakness caused by starvation as a barrier to accessing aid. The physical exhaustion is so profound that many are unable to make the long journey on foot to distribution sites or carry heavy loads even if they receive assistance.
First Person: Documenting despair and finding hope amidst the rubble of Gaza
(August 4, 2025)
It is enough to listen for a few minutes: Planes buzz incessantly overhead, and airstrikes silence everything except fear which, although invisible, fills every space between our tents and seeps into our bodies.
At night, there’s absolute darkness except for the flashes of bombing.
We sleep knowing that waking up is not guaranteed.
Today’s death toll rises to 83
At least 83 people have been killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza today, according to hospital sources cited by our colleagues on the ground. Among them are 58 aid seekers.
Gaza death toll reaches 61,020 since start of Israeli aggression in October 2023 – Medical sources
GAZA, June 26, 2025 (WAFA) – The death toll in the Gaza Strip has reached 61,020, the majority of whom were women and children, since the beginning of the Israeli aggression in October 2023. At least 150,671 others have also been injured.
This toll remains incomplete, as many victims remain trapped under rubble, inaccessible to ambulance and rescue crews.
Medical sources confirmed that of the total casualties, 9,519 civilians have been killed and 38,630 have been injured since March 18, 2025, when the Israeli occupation resumed its aggression on the Gaza Strip after breaking the ceasefire agreement.
Gaza Toll Hits 111 in Two Days as Former Israeli Officials Call for Ceasefire
The Gaza Health Ministry reported that at least 21 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes since early Monday. Combined with 92 deaths recorded the previous day, the two-day toll stands at 111.
Since the launch of Israel’s military operation in October 2023, the overall death toll in Gaza has climbed to 60,839, with more than 149,000 others injured. The escalating civilian casualties have intensified international pressure for a ceasefire and renewed efforts to reach a hostage-release and aid agreement.
Gaza death toll passes 60,800 as Israel continues brutal war on Palestinians
At least 60,839 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip since October 2023, the Health Ministry said on Sunday.
A ministry statement said that 119 bodies were brought to hospitals in the last 24 hours, while 866 people were injured, taking the number of injuries to 149,588 in the Israeli onslaught.
Gaza starvation toll hits 180
Five more Palestinians have died from starvation in the past 24 hours, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported on Monday, raising the official toll to 180—including 93 children—since the start of Israel’s military campaign.
Five more people have died of hunger, as Israel continues to starve Gaza
The Palestinian Health Ministry reported on Monday that at least five adults have died from hunger or malnutrition in the last 24 hours, as Israel continues to restrict aid.
This raises the total number of hunger-related deaths in the territory to 180, including 93 children, according to the ministry.
Germany’s angel of history is screaming
How can a country that professes to be a gatekeeper of international law staunchly defend a state that so flagrantly violates it? How does a country that has spent 80 years cultivating a culture of remembrance, responsibility, and moral accountability show ironclad commitment to arresting one international war criminal, while warmly welcoming another? And how can a country that utilizes the image of the ruins of Dresden to teach its schoolchildren about the dangers of dehumanization and fascism be so blind to its own complicity in an unfolding catastrophe?
‘We are dying slowly, save us’: starvation takes hold in Gaza after a week of appalling milestones
The four food distribution sites across Gaza run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation are open for only a few minutes a day, leading to huge crowds of desperate people, who have come under Israeli fire while seeking humanitarian assistance, leading to mass casualties.
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“We have sent many messages to the world, but no one has moved. We no longer know what to say. All I can tell the world is that we are dying slowly, save us from this tragedy.”