Annalena Baerbock (Greens) has called on Iran and Israel to show “maximum restraint” in view of the impending conflagration in the Middle East. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said after meetings with the two that he appreciated “suggestions and advice.” However, Israel will make its own decisions and “do whatever is necessary to defend itself.
Baerbock said she did not expect Israel to “back down. Rather, she spoke of “a wise restraint that is nothing less than strength. ” Israel has already shown strength with its "defensive victory" at the weekend. The country made it clear to Iran how much Tehran had miscalculated and was isolated in the region. A Hezbollah attack on Israel's north on Wednesday left 13 people injured, four of them seriously. The EU has already imposed massive sanctions on Tehran and will continue to work on it. Iran and its allies must not “add fuel to the fire. Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi once again warned of a "devastating" response from his country if Israel exercises even the slightest "aggression" against Iran. During the major attack on Israel over the weekend, Iran and its accomplices fired more than 500 projectiles, according to Israeli Defense Minister Joav Galant. The attack was triggered by a suspected Israeli attack on the Iranian embassy in the Syrian capital Damascus, in which, among others, two generals from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard were killed at the beginning of the month. In Jerusalem on Wednesday morning, the Green politician met with Cameron and Israeli President Izchak Herzog. In addition to Iran, efforts to free the hostages from the hands of Hamas and the humanitarian situation of the suffering civilian population in the Gaza Strip, where Israel is fighting the Islamists, were also topics in Jerusalem. There are also "several German citizens in the Hands of the brutal terrorists," including a one-year-old baby, said Baerbock.