These and a thousand other memorials and rituals are expressions of Germany’s Erinnerungskultur, a “memory culture” built up over decades. Lately they have been overlaid by a more familiar sight: the markers of bitter rows over Gaza.

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DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — European officials struck a new deal with Israel to allow desperately needed food and fuel into Gaza, the European Union’s foreign policy chief said Thursday as Israeli airstrike killed 10 children and five adults waiting for care outside a medical clinic.

In 2024, the EU sanctioned five Israeli settlers and three entities in the West Bank and East Jerusalem under the GHRSR. At the same time, the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Norway imposed targeted sanctions against Israeli groups and individuals accused of violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.

A gas deal signed between Israel, Egypt and the EU, that has come up for renewal this June, is likely to make the EU complicit in breaches of international law, according to a new investigation by Global Witness. The investigation comes as the EU review their trade ties with Israel due to its aid blockade on Gaza.