When German Ambassador to the Palestinian Authority Oliver Owcza attempted to explore Birzeit University in the West Bank on Tuesday, a crowd of irate students attacked him.
The crowd chased Owcza off college, surrounded his equipped car, and pelted it with stones because students were angry about Germany’s assistance for Israel.
Oliver Owcza, the German adviser to the Palestinian Authority, was pursued and his car was attacked by students at Birzeit University in Ramallah earlier now. photograph. twitter.com/slm7qI0I5B
— Joe Truzman ( @JoeTruzman ) April 30, 2024
Owcza was visiting the university, which is located about six miles from Ramallah, for a meeting of European Union ( EU) officials at the Palestinian Museum. The place was attacked by a mob that surrounded the EU heads of mission before leaving the campus.
Because of their views on the genocide in Gaza, the kids ‘ movements refused those visitors to the museum. For that, we asked them to left”, one of the opposition officials said.
Owcza was rushed to his vehicle by the mob’s slogans of” Out! Out”! and finally attacking the car. Steffen Seibert, the German ambassador to Israel, was likewise subject to student hysteria outside the gallery, breaking his car’s windshield as he attempted to leave.
The Israeli Museum made a statement about the EU ambassadors and the organized crime. The Belgian embassy’s management admitted renting a place, but they insisted they had received no “list of attendees ‘ names” and had not invited any of the ambassadors from the nations who had attended immediately.
The museum’s speech praised Belgium, which has” stood the Palestinian words and induce since the beginning of the anger against our persons in Gaza,” but added that” we would have refused to hire the hall if we had known of the presence of ministers from non-supporting places.”
The German government did not immediately release a speech, but Owcza posted a passive , response to the attack on cultural advertising.
” Quiet opposition and speech always has its place”, he said. We regret that activists overtook the National Museum in Birzeit to disrupt tomorrow’s meeting of EU Heads of Missions. Unfortunately, we remain committed to effectively function with our Palestinian partners”.
The International Court of Justice ( ICJ) decision on Tuesday to not mandate Germany’s withdrawal from its weapons and assistance to Israel may have heightened the Palestinian mob’s fury toward Germans.
A case brought by Nicaragua that claimed providing wings to Israel was equivalent to supporting a genocide against the Palestinians of Gaza was rejected by the ICJ’s panel of judges, who voted 15 to 1.
Germany is certainly a part of the Middle East fight; quite the opposite. We are working day and night to find a two-state answer. In response to the decision, the German Foreign Ministry stated that it is the largest recipient of Palestinian humanitarian assistance.
