Netanyahu is said to have shown the German Foreign Minister footage of a market filled with food in Gaza during a meeting. According to one report, this led to an argument. Baerbock reacts.
Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has expressed anger over reports that there was a massive dispute between her and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“The German ambassador to Israel, Steffen Seibert, was in contact with the Prime Minister’s staff and made it clear what we think of such distorting publications,” said the Green politician at the end of the meeting of the group of seven major industrial nations (G7). on the Italian Mediterranean island of Capri when asked by a journalist whether she had already spoken to Netanyahu about the incident.
“We do not report on confidential conversations,” emphasized Baerbock. “My office and the German ambassador to Israel have already commented on this.” She added: “We have been expressed regret over the publication, the source of which is unclear, and we have nothing further to add.”
The Foreign Office in Berlin had previously described a report about a dispute between Baerbock and Netanyahu last Wednesday as misleading. The Federal Foreign Office wrote on the platform X (formerly Twitter) that key points in the depiction of the two-hour meeting were incorrect.
Alleged dispute over photos from Gaza Strip
A journalist from the Israeli TV station Channel 13 had previously reported on X about a difficult meeting between Baerbock and Netanyahu. The reason for the dispute 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 reported to have said that there are no cases of hunger there.
The head of government loudly replied that the images were real and that Israel was not showing a made-up 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.
Source: Stern
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