German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday called for a ceasefire in the Middle East and expressed solidarity with Israel, on the anniversary of the October 7 attacks by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.
“Dear friends in Israel, we feel for you […], we stand on your side,” Scholz said at the opening of a sustainable development conference in the northern German city of Hamburg.
Scholz also highlighted the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza after a year of war.
“Nothing good can come out of the daily experience of violence and hunger,” the chancellor said. “That is why the federal government is calling for a ceasefire, for the release of hostages, for a political process, even though it now seems further away than ever.”
The only solution to the conflict, for Scholz, is a two-state solution, so that “Israelis and Palestinians can live alongside each other permanently.”
But that can only be achieved if a wider escalation in the region is prevented, the chancellor argued, calling for the Lebanese Hezbollah militia and its backers in Iran to end their attacks.
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