Published On 1/11/2025
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German Foreign Minister Johann Wadewohl expressed his optimism about the continued implementation of the Middle East peace plan, announcing his intention to ease German travel warnings for Israel.
The German minister’s statements came after a meeting with his Israeli counterpart, Gideon Sa’ar, in Tel Aviv – today, Saturday – at the end of a tour of the Middle East that lasted several days.
The politician from Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Party said that his confidence in the peace process “has increased to the point where I think we can review the travel warnings related to Israel,” noting that he aims, by easing the travel warnings, to contribute once again to increasing the growing exchange between Germany and Israel.
“This is of particular concern to me for the younger generation,” Vadivhol added, expressing his regret that students and students currently face great obstacles in traveling to Israel.
Vadivule stated that he would assign the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to handle the details of this matter, and that they would be announced in the middle of this week.
Regarding the continued implementation of the peace plan, the German minister said that he realizes that “what we are heading towards is a difficult matter,” stressing that the first condition for achieving a permanent safe and stable situation in the Gaza Strip is to ensure the establishment of a ceasefire between Israel and the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).
He continued: “I have the general impression that both sides have a firm will to transform this ceasefire into a permanent process that ends in peace.”
Vadiful believed that “it is easier to say that the Hamas movement must be disarmed than to actually implement this matter,” noting that “the common will to achieve this already exists.”
The German Foreign Minister was on his way back from a tour that included Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Bahrain, when he arrived in Israel, where Sa’ar received him at his private residence in the greater Tel Aviv area, in a gesture that was considered a special appreciation from the Israeli side.
At the conclusion of his visit, Vadivul met at Ben Gurion Airport with the parents of the slain soldier Itai Sheen, Hagit and Ruby Sheen, as their son was among the prisoners in the Gaza Strip and was later killed. Itai Shin also held German citizenship, while the resistance in Gaza has not yet returned his body.