{"id":96987,"date":"2025-05-13T03:16:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T03:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/96987\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T03:16:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T03:16:23","slug":"israel-germany-mark-60-years-of-ties-amid-gaza-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/96987\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel, Germany mark 60 years of ties amid Gaza war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><strong> On Monday, the presidents of Israel and Germany celebrated 60 years of diplomatic relations, praising the strong ties between their nations while also recognizing disagreements regarding the war in Gaza. <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Isaac Herzog was visiting Berlin before he and the German head of state, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, were due to tour Israel on Tuesday and Wednesday along with their wives, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News.Az<\/a> reports citing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/magazine\/article\/sy2htq111gx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">foreign media.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Steinmeier, receiving Herzog with full honours at Bellevue Palace, said that the establishment of relations in 1965 was &#8220;a gift that we Germans could not have expected after the horrors of the Second World War.&#8221; Standing alongside him at a joint press conference, Herzog said that the &#8220;process of dialogue and reconciliation&#8221; between the two nations over the past six decades was &#8220;a source of hope.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Herzog praised Germany&#8217;s contribution to Israel&#8217;s security and prosperity and its steadfast backing after the Hamas attack in Israel of October 7, 2023, a stance which he said had demonstrated &#8220;moral clarity.&#8221; Steinmeier stressed that Israel must &#8220;defend itself against Islamist terrorism&#8221; but also said he feared that &#8220;the suffering experienced by the people in Gaza is deepening the divide, and that worries me, like many others.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added that &#8220;everything must be done to prevent an even greater humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Later on Monday, the two heads of state were meeting participants in bilateral youth exchanges and visiting a memorial at a Berlin railway station from which the Nazis sent trains to concentration camps. The two presidents were on Tuesday to embark on their unprecedented joint tour of Israel to highlight a friendship that a grateful Berlin often labels &#8220;a miracle,&#8221; and meet young people, politicians and kibbutz resident.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While Berlin, now led by conservative Chancellor Friedrich Merz, says support for Israel remains a core principle, relations have come under strain in recent years, over the Gaza war and other issues. Israel&#8217;s devastating war in Gaza following the October 7 attack has sparked charges from many countries and rights groups that its response has been disproportionate.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Monday, the presidents of Israel and Germany celebrated 60 years of diplomatic relations, praising the strong ties&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[4671,2000,299,2194,1824,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-96987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-diplomatic-relations","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-gaza","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-israel"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114498357382615439","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96987","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=96987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}