The German government has urged Israel to enhance protection for civilians in the northern West Bank as well as civilian infrastructure. They emphasize the importance of allowing 40,000 displaced individuals to return home swiftly.

In Germany, center-right wins election German opposition leader Friedrich Merz is set to be the country’s next chancellor after the center-right Christian Democratic Union party secured victory in the highly consequential election on Sunday.

I have to admit that about 75 hours in this country have made me pretty nervous,” Francesca Albanese told a small audience in a Berlin newspaper office last week — including several riot police, observing attentively.