Germany, which has been a staunch supporter of Israel because it carries out genocidal assaults on the Gaza Strip, mentioned it might announce humanitarian help to Palestinians in Gaza by €50 million ($55 million), its Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, who’s presently visiting Jordan, mentioned Thursday. The high German diplomat additionally condemned Tel Aviv’s makes an attempt to additional destabilize the Middle East.
Baerbock, talking at a gathering with Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Al-Safadi, mentioned Germany has now pledged greater than €360 million since final yr to Gazans.
The focus of the most recent help push is combating starvation, meals insecurity and malnutrition, together with the supply of well being providers as Israel destroys civilian infrastructure in its ruthless assaults.
In addition, humanitarian help for Syrian refugees in Jordan is to be elevated by €12.7 million, elevating German help to Jordan to €63 million over the course of 2024.
According to the German Foreign Office, two convoys of 120 vans per week journey from Jordan on to the Gaza Strip by way of border crossings within the north of the Gaza Strip. Germany is to offer a further €5 million to help this entry.
Before touring on to Israel as a part of a two-day journey, Baerbock was to go to a warehouse operated by the Jordanian Hashemite Charity Organization (JHCO), a non-governmental group taking part in a key function in distributing Jordanian help to the Gaza Strip.
The JHCO gives medical tools, meals, tents, family items and clothes. It is supported by the German authorities with €4 million for the acquisition of vans, gasoline and car upkeep.
Baerbock’s journey to Israel could possibly be frosty after she known as on components of the Israeli authorities to cease fuelling spiritual tensions amid the struggle in Gaza.
“We firmly reject any attempts to shake up the existing status quo of the holy sites in Jerusalem,” the Green politician mentioned.
Actions of particular person Israeli ministers, such because the go to of the far-right police minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, “are irresponsible and are already fuelling an absolutely explosive situation. We expect the Israeli side to stop this provocation,” Baerbock added.
Al-Aqsa Mosque is the third-holiest website for Muslims. Jews name the realm the Temple Mount, claiming it was the location of two Jewish temples in historical instances.
Israel occupied East Jerusalem, the place Al-Aqsa is positioned, throughout the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. It annexed all the metropolis in 1980 in a transfer by no means acknowledged by the worldwide neighborhood.
Baerbock mentioned that the latest outbreak of violence within the Palestinian West Bank, on the opposite aspect of Israel from Gaza, was inflicting the German authorities nice concern.
“Israel is the occupying power in the West Bank and is obliged under the Geneva Convention to uphold law and order rather than jeopardize it,” she mentioned.
“This explicitly includes protecting the population from attacks by violent, radical settlers.”
Israel has the best to fight terrorism, she mentioned, “but you don’t fight terror by tearing up roads, destroying water pipes and electricity grids or even blocking access to hospitals.”
Jordanian Foreign Minister Al-Safadi known as on the German authorities to impose sanctions on Israel.
“After more than 10 months of aggression (in Gaza), (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu will obviously listen neither to the U.N. Security Council nor to the advice of his friends in the West,” mentioned Al-Safadi.
Netanyahu will proceed if he isn’t threatened with penalties for his actions, he mentioned.
Baerbock arrived in Saudi Arabia for talks earlier on Thursday, earlier than touring on to Jordan.
Israel stands accused of genocide on the International Court of Justice, which in an interim ruling in January ordered Tel Aviv to cease genocidal acts and take measures to ensure that humanitarian help is offered to civilians in Gaza, the place greater than 34,100 folks have been killed.
Source: www.dailysabah.com