Since October 2023, Israel has been waging a war of annihilation in the Gaza Strip. According to official estimates, over 100,000 people have been killed – including tens of thousands of children. Throughout this, the German state has been a political, diplomatic, and military accomplice to Israel’s warfare: delivering arms exports officially valued at nearly half a billion euros between October 2023 and May 2025, Germany is largest arms supplier to Israel next to the USA.
Despite announcing a “halt on arms deliveries,” Germany continues supplying weapons that are used to murder Palestinians (read our statement on this).
Wir führen berlinweit alle zwei Wochen Mahnwachen gegen deutsche Waffenlieferungen nach Israel durch. Jeden zweiten Samstag findest Du uns in einem anderen Stadtteil. Weitere Infos findest Du in unserem Kalender oder auf Instagram.
What can you do? Get active against arms deliveries!
Campaigns against arms production and militarization in Berlin
In Berlin-Wedding, the former automotive supplier Pierburg GmbH is being converted to arms production. Under strict secrecy, ammunition components are being manufactured there for the Rheinmetall corporation. It is this ammunition that kills in Gaza, in the West Bank, and in wars worldwide, all with German involvement. The “Berliner Bündnis gegen Waffenproduktion” (“Berlin Alliance Against Arms Production”) was formed in the spring of 2025, following the announcement that the Pierburg GmbH factory in Wedding was to be converted to military production.
On Sunday, October 12th, a demonstration against arms production took place in Wedding, with further actions to follow.
Relevant petitions to sign and share:
- “No Transport for Genocide! Immediately Reinstate DHL Worker Christopher!” (Palestine Action Network Leipzig & Trade Unionists for Gaza)
- “Save the people in Gaza, stop the genocide!” (Amnesty International)
- “Against the Reintroduction of Compulsory Military Service and Other Forced Labour!” (No to Compulsory Military Service Alliance)
Take part in our protests
We organize bi-weekly protests across Berlin against German arms deliveries to Israel. Every second Saturday, you can find us in a different district. You can find more information about the location and time in our calendar or on our Instagram here.
You can also reach us by email: interbuendnis@proton.me
Write to Members of the German Bundestag
Below is a template for a letter in german if you wish to write to Members of the German Bundestag, urging them to advocate for an end to German arms exports and an end to the genocide in Gaza. Click the button below to copy the text to your device’s clipboard for further use. Below, you will also find the link to the list of Members of the German Bundestag. Please Remember to replace the information in the square brackets!
[Dein Name]
[Deine Adresse]
[PLZ Ort]
[Emailadresse – optional]
An
[Name der/des Abgeordneten]
Deutscher Bundestag
Platz der Republik 1
11011 Berlin
[Datum]
Brief: Keine Waffenlieferungen an Israel – Stoppen Sie den Genozid in Gaza
Sehr geehrte/r [Name der/des Abgeordneten],
seit Monaten verfolgen wir mit Entsetzen die humanitäre Katastrophe im Gazastreifen, in der zehntausende Zivilistinnen, darunter unzählige Kinder, ihr Leben verloren haben. Die Bilder und Berichte über flächendeckende Zerstörung, Hungerblockaden und gezielte Angriffe auf zivile Infrastruktur lassen keinen Zweifel mehr daran: In Gaza findet ein systematischer Bruch des Völkerrechts statt – Expert*innen sprechen bereits seit 2023 von einem Genozid, der von Deutschland militärisch und politisch mitunterstützt wird.
In dieser Situation ist es für mich unerträglich, dass die Bundesrepublik Deutschland weiterhin Waffen an die israelische Regierung liefert – und damit politisch wie materiell einen genozidalen Krieg unterstützt, der gegen alle Prinzipien der Menschlichkeit und der internationalen Rechtsordnung verstößt.
Ich fordere Sie daher auf:
- Setzen Sie sich im Bundestag für ein sofortiges Ende aller Waffen- und Rüstungslieferungen an Israel ein sowie die sofortige Einfuhr von Hilfsgütern.
- Verlangen Sie eine unabhängige Untersuchung der Kriegsverbrechen im Gazastreifen und unterstützen Sie internationale Gremien, die dies ermöglichen.
- Positionieren Sie sich öffentlich und im Parlament unmissverständlich gegen den Genozid in Gaza.
Als Abgeordnete*r sehe ich Sie in der Pflicht, sich gegen Krieg und gegen Genozid einzusetzen. Schweigen bedeutet in diesem Moment eine Mitverantwortung für das Leid unzähliger unschuldiger Menschen. Deutschland darf nicht auf der falschen Seite der Geschichte stehen.
Bitte nutzen Sie Ihre Stimme und Ihre Position, um sich gegen den Genozid entgegenzutreten und sich für Frieden, Gerechtigkeit und Menschlichkeit einzusetzen.
Mit eindringlichem Appell,
[Dein vollständiger Name]
For contact information for individual Members of Parliament, click on the button to access the list of Members of Parliament on the Bundestag website.
Download and share information material
Below you will find information material from the Interalliance. The files can be downloaded using the button, and we invite you to print out the material yourself and distribute it at work, in your social circle or elsewhere!
Didn’t the German government stop exporting arms to Israel in August 2025?
No. We must continue to increase pressure on Germany’s arms exports for the following reasons.
- Merz’s announcement is hypocritical: the German government continues to supply arms that are used to murder people in Palestine. The Federal Press Conference has confirmed that Merz’s statements only refer to a halt on new export licences for arms exports. Arms exports that have already been approved will not be stopped. All export licences for arms exports to Israel that were granted until August 2025 (amounting to almost half a billion euros from October 2023 to May 2025) remain in place! In other words, German weapons will continue to be used in Gaza to kill people. Furthermore, the suspension of licences is limited to ammunition for artillery, tanks and small arms. Export licences for warships will continue to be issued, as will those for other essential goods that Israel needs for its war. If the German government really wants to prevent arms from being used in Gaza in violation of international law, it must stop existing export licences for all war-related goods.
- Our demands go further: we demand not only that weapons that could be used in Gaza no longer be supplied, but a complete arms embargo. This means an end to all arms and military equipment deliveries from Germany to Israel. It also means an end to the purchase of weapons systems from Israel by Germany. Furthermore, we demand: a shift from arms and weapons production to civilian production! No social cuts for war, but money for social infrastructure, schools, public transport, not for the rearmament policy of Germany and NATO!
- It is not easy to track which weapons and armaments exports are being used in Gaza. The German government’s statements are contradictory. On the one hand, it has claimed in the past that no German weapons are being used in Gaza. At the same time, Merz announced on 8 August that: ‘Until further notice, no exports of military equipment that could be used in the Gaza Strip will be approved.’ In other words, the German government is well aware that German weapons were used in the genocide in Gaza. The German government does not say which weapons these are. A significant proportion of German arms deliveries to Israel are not complete weapons, but weapon parts that are then assembled in Israel. This makes it difficult to track which arms deliveries are being used where. We therefore say: All arms and military equipment exports to Israel must be stopped.
- Israeli war crimes are not limited to Gaza. In the West Bank, Lebanon, or attacks on Iran and Syria: the Israeli occupying power uses weapons for war throughout the Middle East and destabilises the region. German submarines, for example, play an important role in helping Israel wage war in the region. No weapons should be supplied to Israel.
- The import of Israeli weapons must also be stopped. Germany buys missile defence systems and drones from Israel, for example. The weapons systems that Israel exports are tested on Palestinians in the ‘Gaza laboratory’ and thus marketed in a perverse way. The import of Israeli weapons systems is part of the massive rearmament in Germany, which aims to plunge the country into active warfare in the context of NATO rearmament. If we want lasting peace, we must oppose not only the export of weapons, but also their import.
- The genocide continues! German weapons are still being used in Gaza to carry out the Zionist genocide of the Palestinians. Every day, people in Gaza are being murdered with Western weapons, and this is even ideologically justified in Germany. That is why we will continue to take to the streets until there is an arms embargo, until the genocide ends and until Palestine is free!
- Only growing political pressure will force the German government to end its support for genocide! The halt on new licences for arms deliveries is a consequence of the massive pressure on Germany’s comprehensive complicity in the genocide. Merz has not renounced Germany’s extensive support for Israel, but has emphasised it once again. Only growing protest will be able to dissuade the government from its course and force a complete halt to all arms deliveries.
Bibliography
Arms and weapons deliveries between Israel and Germany
- Report from Forensic Architecture on weapons exports from Germany to Israel (2nd April 2024)
- 33% of all weapons exports to Israel come from Germany (Statista) (German)
- Import of combat drones from Israel (ND) (German)
- Approved arms exports to Israel worth €485 million (As of June 2025) (Zeit) (German)
- Germany supplied combat vehicle parts and other weapons to Israel throughout 2024
Press release (shadowworldinvestigations) – Report (English)
Genocide in Palestine
- Human Rights Watch Report
- 83% of those killed in Gaza are civilians (Forum Gewerkschaftliche Linke)
Original article (English) (972mag) - Three quarters of those detained by Israel are not militants (Junge Welt)
Article in The Guardian (English)
Extend of destruction in Gaza
- Statistic OCHA (English) (The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs)
- Timeline: Destruction of hospitals in Gaza (Stand April 2025) (English) (Al Jazeera English)
- 94% of all hospitals in Gaza damaged or destroyed (As of May 2025) (English) (Middle East Monitor)
- Wikipedia: Attacks on healthcare in Gaza (Englisch)
- The „Cartography of Genocide“ platform documents the extent and nature of Israel’s attack on the Gaza Strip since October 2023 in unprecedented detail. (English) (Forensic Architecture)
Complicity of German institutions and universities in genocide:
- Report from Academic Complicity (English)