TURKU, May 27, 2025 (WAFA) – German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Tuesday that Israeli attacks on Gaza were no "longer comprehensible" and "can no longer be justified".
Speaking at a press conference in Turku, Finland, the German Chancellor Merz stated: “The massive military strikes by the Israelis in the Gaza Strip no longer reveal any logic to me.”
“"I am also not among those who said it first ... But it seemed and seems to me that the time has come when I must say publicly, (that) what is currently happening is no longer comprehensible,” he added.
Commenting on Israel’s genocidal offensive on the Strip in an interview with the WDR broadcaster, German Foreign minister Johann Wadephul said that Berlin's "full support for the right to exist and the security of the state of Israel must not be instrumentalised for the conflict and the warfare currently being waged in the Gaza Strip.”
"We are now at a point where we have to think very carefully about what further steps to take," he added.
Israel unilaterally ended the Gaza ceasefire agreement and resumed its aggression on the Strip on Tuesday, March 18, carrying out a wave of bloody airstrikes across the Strip and killing hundreds of Palestinians.
The death toll reached at least 3,901 with 11,088 others wounded, according to medical sources. In the last 24 hours, the bodies of 79 slain Palestinians and 163 casualties were admitted to Gaza hospitals.
The aggression was resumed amidst concerns over the deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the Strip given the ongoing siege and ban on the entry of medical and humanitarian aid.
Israel has waged a military onslaught on the Strip since October 2023, killing 54,056 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring 123,129 others.
Moreover, at least 10,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.
The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.
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