Israel trip
Violent dispute between Baerbock and Netanyahu? The Foreign Office denies this
Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to Annalena Baerbock in his official residence – it was her fifth visit to Israel after the Hamas terrorist attack
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There are sharp statements between Annalena Baerbock and Benjamin Netanyahu, reported by an Israeli journalist. The Foreign Office calls her description misleading.
The Foreign Office has a report on a dispute between the Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described it as misleading a few days ago. The Federal Foreign Office wrote on Friday on the X platform (formerly Twitter) that key points in the depiction of the two-hour meeting were incorrect. The German ambassador to Israel, Steffen Seibert, made the same comments.
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A journalist from the Israeli TV station Channel 13 had previously reported on X about a difficult meeting between Baerbock and Netanyahu. The reason is said to have been that Baerbock was shown photos from the Gaza Strip showing markets filled with food. The Green politician then pointed out the hunger of the people in the coastal area. Netanyahu is said to have replied that there were no cases of hunger there. According to the report, Baerbock also advised him not to show the pictures because they did not correspond to the reality in the Gaza Strip.
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Israel’s head of government, in turn, responded loudly that the images were real and that Israel was not showing an invented reality like the Nazis. In 1942, the Nazis had a film crew make a propaganda film with staged scenes of everyday life in the Warsaw Ghetto. Baerbock then asked Netanyahu whether he wanted to say that doctors in the Gaza Strip and international media were not reporting the truth.
Baerbock met, among others, Netanyahu and President Izchak Herzog on her seventh visit to Israel on Wednesday.