{"id":615524,"date":"2025-12-06T08:15:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T08:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/615524\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T08:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T08:15:14","slug":"german-leader-heads-to-jordan-israel-dw-12-06-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/615524\/","title":{"rendered":"German leader heads to Jordan, Israel \u2013 DW \u2013 12\/06\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"#post-liveblog-post-75044522\" class=\"q1knotlb b14agbwd quick-item\">Skip next section Things to know about Merz&#8217;s Middle East trip itinerary<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12\/06\/2025December 6, 2025Things to know about Merz&#8217;s Middle East trip itinerary<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On Saturday, Merz is to first visit Jordan before heading for Jerusalem later in the day<\/li>\n<li>In the Jordanian capital, Amman, he is to meet\u00a0with King Abdullah II<\/li>\n<li>On Sunday, a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planned<\/li>\n<li>The German chancellor also intends to visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, where he will lay a wreath<\/li>\n<li>He is\u00a0scheduled to join Israeli civil society representatives and intellectuals for informal discussion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>https:\/\/p.dw.com\/p\/54sVW<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#post-liveblog-post-75044502\" class=\"q1knotlb b14agbwd quick-item\">Skip next section Welcome to our coverage<\/a>12\/06\/2025December 6, 2025Welcome to our coverage<\/p>\n<p>DW brings you reports and analysis on German Chancellor Friedrich Merz&#8217;s first visit to both Jordan and Israel since taking office.<\/p>\n<p>The relationship between Germany and Israel has always been charged with a special historical significance owing to Germany&#8217;s responsibility for the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>Germany was among the top foreign weapons suppliers to Israel and supported the country&#8217;s right to respond to the October 7 Hamas attacks. But the German government also raised concerns about <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/germany-suspends-arms-exports-to-israel-for-use-in-gaza\/a-73569858\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suffering in the Gaza Strip as the offensive went on<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire nearly two months ago, but have since accused each other of violating the terms of the deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite frequent flare-ups, the deal appears to be largely holding with the first phase of the deal inching toward completion.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas is designated a terrorist organization by Germany, Israel, the US and\u00a0other governments.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/p.dw.com\/p\/54sVC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Skip next section Things to know about Merz&#8217;s Middle East trip itinerary 12\/06\/2025December 6, 2025Things to know about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-615524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}