The German government said on Saturday despite a limited improvement, the amount of aid entering Gaza is still ‘very insufficient,’ according to AFP.
These remarks followed the Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul’s visit to the region on Thursday and Friday and the airdropping of Germany’s first food airdrops into Gaza.
The government spokesman Stefan Kornelius stated that his country “notes limited initial progress in the delivery of humanitarian aid to the population of the Gaza Strip, which, however, remains very insufficient to alleviate the emergency situation.” Kornelius also underscored that “Israel remains obligated to ensure the full delivery of aid.”
Diplomatic Isolation
On Thursday, Wadephul stated that Israel is facing growing diplomatic isolation over the deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Gaza and mounting international support for Palestinian statehood, according to Al Arabiya.
He also noted that that the recent UN conference on a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — boycotted by the US and Israel — showed that “Israel is finding itself increasingly in the minority.”
Several European countries have recently announced their plans to recognize a state of Palestine without previous negotiations.
However, Germany, one of Israel’s staunchest diplomatic allies, is not planning to recognize the Palestinian state in the short term, according to Reuters.
A German government spokesperson said on Friday that his country’s top priority now is to make “long-overdue progress” towards a two-state solution.
Germany’s position on Israel in the context of the Gaza war is deeply shaped by its sense of special responsibility to atone for the Holocaust, during which six million European Jews were killed under Hitler’s regime between 1933 and 1945.
Wadephul also repeated Berlin’s position that “the recognition of a Palestinian state should come at the end of the process” of negotiations.
However, he sharpened his tone slightly by insisting that “this process must begin now” and that “Germany will also be forced to react to unilateral moves.”
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