Skip next section Merz to confer with Security Cabinet on Israel
07/28/2025July 28, 2025Merz to confer with Security Cabinet on Israel
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is set to meet with his Security Cabinet in Berlin a day after speaking to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the phone.
Merz said he had urged Netanyahu to improve the humanitarian crises in Gaza, having previously called Israeli policy in the enclave “unacceptable.”
The cabinet includes Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil of the Social Democrats (SPD), the center-left junior coalition partners of Merz’s center-right block.
Last week, several prominent members of the SPD urged the government to take a stronger stance against Israel after 28 countries, including close allies France and the UK, issued a joint declaration condemning Israel’s military actions in Gaza and calling for an end to the war.
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Skip next section Israeli rights NGOs to hold press conference on Gaza investigation
07/28/2025July 28, 2025Israeli rights NGOs to hold press conference on Gaza investigation
Representatives of B’Tselem, also known as the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, and Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) are due to present their latest report on the war in Gaza later on Monday.
B’Tselem is a Jerusalem-based organization that focuses on human rights abuses in the Palestinian territories, and has expressed criticism of the Israeli government’s policies in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
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Skip next section 120 aid trucks have entered Gaza: Israel
07/28/2025July 28, 2025120 aid trucks have entered Gaza: Israel
The Israeli government has said that 120 aid trucks having been allowed to enter Gaza, coinciding with a ten-hour pause in military operations in some areas, such as Al-Malawsi and Deir al-Balah.
Last week, international criticism of Israel’s conduct in Gaza reached a fever pitch as news of mass starvation, particularly of children, continued to circulate. There was also hefty criticism of the US-run and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), one of the few aid organizations that was allowed to operate during Israel’s months-long blockade, due to the reports of killings of hundreds of people waiting for aid at their distribution points.
Gaza’s youngest suffering from ‘man-made nutritional crisis’
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The UN welcomed the news, a week after Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called what was happening in Gaza a “horror show…without parallel in recent times.”
The body’s Emergency Relief Coordinator, Tom Fletcher, said: “We welcome Israel’s decision to support a one-week scale-up of aid, including lifting customs barriers on food, medicine and fuel from Egypt and the reported designation of secure routes for UN humanitarian convoys.”
Fletcher cautioned, however, that it still wouldn’t be enough “to stave off famine and a catastrophic health crisis,” before adding: “And no more attacks on people gathering for food.“
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Skip next section Welcome to our coverage07/28/2025July 28, 2025Welcome to our coverage
Israel has announced a ten-hour pause in military action for Monday following an increasingly widespread global outcry over the mass starvation in the enclave, which has been under a months-long blockade of aid by the Israeli military.
The Security Cabinet of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is set to meet on Monday afternoon to discuss Berlin’s position on Gaza and Israeli conduct there.
Also on Monday, two Israel-based NGOs are expected to present their findings after an independent investigation on rights abuses in Gaza.
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