German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday that Germany is “making efforts” to advance an Israel-Gaza deal though she said she did not wish to elaborate on those efforts.
According to Haaretz newspaper Merkel who is on a snap visit to Israel spoke shortly after visiting the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum on Thursday.
Later on the same day Merkel received an honorary doctorate from the University of Haifa at a special ceremony at the Israel Museum where she met with students.
After a student asked Merkel if Germany would support a settlement between Israel and Hamas which would include the Israeli captives in Gaza she replied: “When [Gilad] Shalit was imprisoned we made many efforts. Now we are making efforts but I would rather not elaborate.”
