Statement on killings in Gaza: Klingbeil demands consequences

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Statement on killings in Gaza: Klingbeil demands consequences

The words of an Israeli police minister are shocking. The German Vice Chancellor says the call to kill Palestinians in Gaza is inhumane. What he demands now.

Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil calls for consequences after statements by an Israeli minister about targeted killings of Palestinians. “These are statements that we as Federal Government “We cannot accept this in any way,” said the SPD leader Summer interview the Sat.1 program “newstime”. Sanctions must now be examined “very seriously” at the European level.

The behavior of the police minister Itamar Ben-Gvir is “inhumane.” “I stand in solidarity with the state Israel. But I don’t stand in solidarity with such ministers,” said Klingbeil. People like Ben-Gvir kept setting fires, saying that a limit had now been crossed. “The federal government must clearly contradict this. I do the same here,” emphasized the Vice Chancellor.

The Green Party leader Franziska Brantner called on the federal government to “impose an entry ban on this man.” Ben-Gvir’s comments were “deeply disturbing and inhumane,” Brantner told Politico. “We should, we must, draw a clear line here,” she emphasized. Ben-Gvir is “not the first time with frightening calls for violence against Palestinians,” said Brantner. Several European countries have already imposed sanctions against him. “It is time for Germany to join these states,” demanded the Green Party leader.

The right-wing extremist police minister Ben-Gvir said, among other things: “I think that targeted killings should be carried out in Gaza, removing 30, 40 (people) every night.” He added that he was not just referring to militant Palestinians who posed an immediate threat. There is in Gaza Strip rather, people who don’t deserve to live.