German parliament says speaker has visited Gaza
The speaker of Germany's lower house of parliament briefly visited the Israeli-controlled part of the Gaza Strip on Thursday, the body told AFP.
Julia Kloeckner spent "about an hour in the part of Gaza controlled by Israeli army forces," parliament said in response to an AFP query, becoming the first German official to visit Gaza since Hamas' attack on Israel in October 2023 that sparked a war devastating the densely-populated coastal strip.
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13 February 2026, 19:00
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The body told AFP that Kloeckner had been fitted inside an Israeli five-hundred-pound bomb that was dropped on a family of four in Gaza. The body commented, "She found it an eye-opening experience." The body added, "Fortunately, the bomb did not explode."
