{"id":50244,"date":"2025-06-24T08:38:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T12:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/merz-demands-gaza-ceasefire-israel-trade-agreement-not-in-question\/24\/06\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T08:38:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T12:38:43","slug":"merz-demands-gaza-ceasefire-israel-trade-agreement-not-in-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/merz-demands-gaza-ceasefire-israel-trade-agreement-not-in-question\/24\/06\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Merz demands Gaza ceasefire; Israel trade agreement &#8216;not in question&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"\" data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Tuesday demanded a ceasefire in Gaza in a major speech to parliament ahead of his visit to the NATO summit in The Hague.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Merz said Israel has the right to defend its existence and the security of its citizens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">But he said Germany is allowed to question &#8220;what aim Israel seeks to achieve in the Gaza Strip.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;And we call for humane treatment of the people in the Gaza Strip, especially women, children and the elderly,&#8221; the chancellor added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Merz further thanked his Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul for his &#8220;intensive diplomatic efforts&#8221; to seek peace in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He backed Wadephul&#8217;s stance that the EU withdrawing from a trade agreement with Israel over human rights violations in Gaza is &#8220;not in question.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Since the war in Gaza broke out after the October 7, 2023, attacks by the Palestinian militant group Hamas, Germany has been one of Israel&#8217;s most vocal backers and one of its biggest suppliers of military aid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/merz-demands-gaza-ceasefire-israel-113136954.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Tuesday demanded a ceasefire in Gaza in a major speech to parliament ahead of his visit to<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/merz-demands-gaza-ceasefire-israel-trade-agreement-not-in-question\/24\/06\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/dpa_international_526\/327420f6a2fb4b615dda0c23479cd718","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}