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Thursday, February 12, 2026
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Thursday, February 12, 2026
German parliament says its speaker visited Gaza today
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe speaker of Germany’s lower house of parliament briefly visited the Israeli-controlled part of the Gaza Strip today, the body tells AFP.
The Bundestag’s Julia Kloeckner spent “about an hour in the part of Gaza controlled by Israeli army forces,” parliament says in response to an AFP query, becoming the first German official to visit Gaza since the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attack that sparked the war in the territory.
The reported visit comes after Kloeckner was honored by the Knesset yesterday.
The @KnessetIL honours President of the Bundestag Julia Klöckner. Good to see our democratic parliaments at work, as @JuliaKloeckner starts her official visit to #Israel. pic.twitter.com/n8Q2alp07K
— Steffen Seibert (@GerAmbTLV) February 11, 2026
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