TEHRAN- Germany is among certain Western countries that stands accused of aiding and abetting the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza. 

The German government has launched heavy-handed crackdowns on pro-Palestine protests in the country since the start of the Gaza onslaught in October last year. 

On Saturday, more than 1,000 protesters gathered in Berlin to express solidarity with Palestinians and denounce Israel’s atrocities in Gaza and Lebanon. 

The demonstrators called on the German government to stop sending weapons to Israel. 

They carried banners with slogans such as “Stop the Genocide in Gaza” and “Stop Arming Israel”.

But police attacked the protesters and made arrests. 

Over the course of the Gaza war, German police have clashed with anti-war protesters under the pretext of combatting anti-Semitism. 

However, protesters including Jews, have dismissed the allegation as baseless. 

Complicity in crimes 

Nearly a week ago, hundreds of German intellectuals accused their country of complicity in Israeli crimes in Gaza. 

“For over one year, the German government has been actively participating in the killing and dehumanization of Palestinians by providing political, financial, military, and legal support to Israel. Germany’s complicity in Israel’s atrocities must stop,” the intellectuals said in a letter to their government, according to Anadolu. 

"We, the undersigned, demand the German government to stand unwaveringly on the side of justice and international law; to exert pressure on Israel to immediately end the killing, maiming, and destruction of Palestinian life,” they stated. 

The signatories said Germany as a signatory to the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide and to the Rome Statute, has “a historical, ethical, legal, and political obligation not to commit, aid, and abet the atrocity crimes that these treaties proscribe.”

Last year, the German government approved more than $350 million worth of military equipment and weapons to Israel. 

The Health Ministry in Gaza reported on Sunday that the death toll from Israel’s war on the enclave has reached 43,846. 

Israeli strikes on Lebanon have also claimed the lives of about 3,500 people since October last year. 

Nonetheless, the German government has disregarded appeals to cease its support for Israel, even as the civilian death toll from the regime's assaults continues to escalate.