German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has expressed her anger over reports from Israeli news media that there was a huge row between her and the Israeli prime minister. Benjamin Netanyahu.
“The German Ambassador to Israel, Steffen Seibert, was in contact with the Prime Minister’s staff and made it clear what we think about such distorted reports,” Baerbock said at the end of the Grand Group of Seven (G7) meeting on Friday. industrialized democracies on the Italian island of Capri in the Mediterranean.
“We do not comment on confidential conversations,” Baerbock emphasized.
“My office and the German ambassador to Israel have already discussed this,” she added. “We have been told that they regret the publication, the source of which is unclear, and we have nothing further to add.”
The German Foreign Ministry in Berlin had previously labeled a report on a heated exchange between Baerbock and Netanyahu on Wednesday as misleading, claiming that “key points” in the reports on the lengthy meeting are incorrect.
The German Foreign Ministry did not specify which aspects of the reports were allegedly incorrect.
A journalist from the Israeli TV station Channel 13 had reported that a heated argument broke out after Baerbock objected to the Israeli government showing photos that positively reflected conditions in the Gaza Strip, and reiterated her concerns about dire humanitarian conditions over there.
