Poll shows majority of Germans oppose Israeli conduct in war on Gaza
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Six out of ten Germans disagree with Israeli conduct in the onslaught against Gaza.
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Women embrace in a corridor at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah on June 4, 2024. (AFP)
The majority of Germans are now opposed to "Israel's" war on Gaza, a study conducted by the Forsa Institute for the weekly Stern revealed.
A study conducted last week revealed that 61% of respondents rejected Israeli actions, with only one-third still supporting them. According to Stern, public opinion appears to have swung to its polar opposite in approximately half a year.
As the death toll inches closer to 37,000 Palestinians, Stern revealed that last November, barely a month after the war began, the majority of Germans supported "Israel", citing findings from another Forsa study. At the time, 62% supported the Israeli military action and 31% opposed it, according to the report.
The shift is apparent across all parties in Germany, including Social Democrats, coalition partners, the Greens, and the largest opposition force, the center-right Union, along with some of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) opposing Israeli military action.
Berlin has been an avid supporter of "Israel", going so far as to amend its citizenship test to include questions regarding the Holocaust and "Israel".
Germany's commitment to the occupation goes so far that 30% of "Israel's" arms acquisitions in 2023 came from US corporations, 30% came from Germany, and 0.9% from Italy, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute's (SIPRI) annual study issued in March.
Germany says ICJ ruling against Rafah offensive must be implemented
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said last week that the International Court of Justice's ruling, ordering the halt of "Israel's" military invasion of Rafah, was binding and should be implemented.
Speaking to reporters before the European Union's Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Brussels, Baerbock said, "These temporary measures voiced by the UN International Court of Justice are binding and should, of course, be implemented."
On Friday, in a momentous emergency verdict on South Africa's complaint accusing "Israel" of genocide, judges at the United Nation's highest court, the ICJ, ordered "Israel" to immediately halt its military assault on Rafah in southern Gaza.
Nawaf Salam, president of the ICJ, read out the verdict, stating that the situation in Gaza has deteriorated since the court's last injunction to "Israel" to remedy it.
Salam stated that the occupation shall "immediately halt its military offensive and any other action in the Rafah governorate, which may inflict on the Palestinian group in Gaza conditions of life that could bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part."
"Israel had not provided sufficient information about the safety of the population during the evacuation process, or the availability of food, water, sanitation, and medicine for the 800,000 Palestinians that had already fled Rafah so far," Salam said, adding, "Consequently, the court is of the view that Israel has not sufficiently addressed and dispelled the concerns raised by its military offensive in Rafah."
