The ongoing blockade of aid deliveries to the Gaza Strip and the renewed expansion of hostilities are “unacceptable,” Green Party leader Franziska Brantner said.
Brantner said the German government must “make clear its position on compliance with international humanitarian law.”
Populist politician Sahra Wagenknecht meanwhile demanded an immediate halt to Germany’s arms deliveries to Israel, describing its actions in the Gaza Strip as “a campaign of destruction and a gigantic war crime.”
Wagenknecht, who leads the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance, said the German government must immediately end its “policy of solidarity” with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
An “offensive” is a specific military term that only becomes meaningful when considering the military objectives that a war is being fought for in the first place.
The objective of war is to capture territory and literally and metaphorically enclose an enemy so they are starved of resources and have no choice but to surrender en masse, which hopefully minimizes unnecessary loss of life of combatants on both sides doing things like charging machine gun nests pointlessly.
Generals focus on offensives because if you can enclose an enemy force and deny them basic human necessities then there is no need to directly destroy each element of that enemy force to win, and subsequently little need to grind down your own forces in costly frontal assaults against heavily entrenched positions.
This is why the Palestinian Genocide is NOT a war, Israel already encloses and entirely controls Gaza, THERE ARE NO VALID MILITARY OBJECTIVES OR UNENCLOSED TERRITORY FOR THE IDF TO PURSUE IN AN “OFFENSIVE” THAT THEY DO NOT ALREADY POSSESS, this is an open air jail advertising they are upping their rate of murdering prisoners.