COMMENT | Germany's complicity in Gaza genocide

COMMENT | Germany’s complicity with Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza is an undeniable fact. The following are four pieces of evidence that support that statement.

1.  Weapons supply

Data published by investigative outlet Forensic Architecture from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute shows that Germany supplied 47 percent of Israel’s total imports of conventional arms in 2023.

According to data from Germany’s own Economy Ministry, which approves export licences, in 2023, the country approved arms exports to Israel worth US$363.5 million, including military equipment and war weapons, a 10-fold increase from 2022.

The latest numbers obtained by a German MP show that arms exports to Israel were worth US$101 million since August 2024 alone. To date, in 2024, Germany has provided 30 percent of Israel’s weapons supply.

All these despite claims that approval for export licences for arms to Israel has stopped due to legal and political pressure from legal cases arguing that such exports from Germany breached humanitarian law.