BERLIN — The German government said Monday that it\u2019s lifting its restrictions on exports of military equipment to Israel, weeks after the ceasefire between Israel and the Hamas militant group.<\/p>\n
Chancellor Friedrich Merz said in early August<\/a> that Berlin wouldn\u2019t authorize any exports of military equipment to Israel that could be used in Gaza \u201cuntil further notice.” That was a response to a decision by the Israeli Cabinet to take over Gaza City<\/a>.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for Merz, Sebastian Hille, said that the restrictions will be lifted from Nov. 24.<\/p>\n \u201cSince Oct. 10, we have had a ceasefire in Gaza and it has fundamentally stabilized,\u201d Hille told reporters at a regular government news conference. \u201cThat is the basis for this decision.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe expect everyone to keep to the agreements that were reached \u2014 that includes the ceasefire holding, that includes humanitarian aid being provided on a large scale and the process continuing to run in an orderly way, as agreed,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Hille declined to comment on whether there had been Israeli requests for equipment in the period since the restrictions were imposed, or whether anything had been held back. <\/p>\n Once the restrictions are lifted, Germany will examine military exports on a case-by-base basis, as is its standard practice with such exports, he said.<\/p>\n Merz’s decision in August was a remarkable move by a country that is a particularly staunch ally of Israel. The Israeli foreign minister welcomed its lifting Monday in a post on social network X.<\/p>\n \u201cI call on other governments to adopt similar decisions, following Germany,\u201d Gideon Saar wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN — The German government said Monday that it\u2019s lifting its restrictions on exports of military equipment to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[85675,120,127,114,122,42,61,43,238,40,38,41,39,121,126],"class_list":["post-137860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-85675","tag-2024-2025-mideast-wars","tag-article","tag-business","tag-general-news","tag-headlines","tag-israel-hamas-war","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-war-and-unrest","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}