While Palestinian diaspora and its allies are taking out almost-daily protest rallies in different European capitals to draw attention to the Israeli brutalities, European leaders have looked the other way. / Photo: Reuters Archive
More than 30,000 Palestinians, many of them women and children, have been killed in the indiscriminate Israeli bombings. However, Samour clarifies that while German leaders do not see Israel's actions as genocide, the German constitution allows provision to prosecute individuals directly involved in or complicit to genocide, war crimes or crimes against humanity.,"For offences...that were committed abroad, this Act shall apply independently of the law of the place where the act was committed if the perpetrator is German or if the offence is directed against the Federal Republic of Germany.
“Under that law, Germany, has a clear obligation to prevent genocide and German state officials should use their leverage and employ all lawful means at their disposal to influence Israel to refrain from genocidal acts,” says Samour.