Israeli President Isaac Herzog visited with his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier Kibbutz Be'eri, located near the border with Gaza.
President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his wife Elke, visited Kibbutz Be’eri with Isaac Herzog
Israeli President Isaac Herzog visited with his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier Kibbutz Be'eri, located near the border with Gaza.
Steinmeier announced that the German parliament will contribute 7 million euros for the reconstruction of the kibbutz art gallery.
"The ruins behind us are the silent testimony of what happened here. It is not easy to find the words to describe what we heard from those who know and those who witnessed the actions, murders, killings and rapes of Hamas here on October 7," he said.
A Lebanese official denied on Thursday a Reuters report that Beirut had agreed with Israel to a shortlist of countries that could send troops to Lebanon to verify the disarmament of Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, and said it was following up on the issue with Washington.
Israel won't withdraw from southern Lebanon until Hezbollah is disarmed, the defence minister said on Thursday, qualifying remarks he made a day earlier that had suggested Israeli forces would occupy the territory indefinitely and drew U.S. criticism.
Israeli troops clashed with Jewish settlers on Wednesday while trying to disperse them from a West Bank outpost they set up directly in front of Palestinian homes, and later withdrew from the area after failing to clear the settlers, witnesses said.
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