The children’s shoes, says Markus Söder, “there are burned children’s shoes.” Rubble and shards crunch beneath the Prime Minister’s soles. What Söder (CSU) just saw was once a children’s room. Now the walls are black with soot, the window has no glass, everything is burned out. There is a cot in the room, and there is a small stuffed donkey, also black, on the blanket. “Totally depressing,” says Söder.
Bavaria’s Prime Minister Söder visits the Kibbutz Nir Oz on the Gaza-Bavaria border
