Germany’s foreign minister has said that the country will continue arms deliveries to Israel despite earlier suggesting that these were under review, AFP reports.
Johann Wadephul told a heated session in parliament that Israel, amid its military campaign in Gaza, was under threat from Yemen’s Houthi rebels, Lebanese Hezbollah and Iran, and that “Germany will continue to support Israel, including with weapons deliveries”.
Today’s parliamentary session was briefly disrupted by a protester shouting “Free Palestine” and “No to genocide”, who was then escorted from the spectators’ gallery.
Earlier, an MP for the far-left Die Linke party, Cansin Kokturk, was ordered to leave the chamber for wearing a T-shirt with the word “Palestine” on it.