Julia Klöckner  on Thursday became the first German politician to set foot in the Gaza Strip since the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attacks in Israel and Israel's subsequent military operations against the territory. According to the Bundestag, Germany's lower house of parliament, Klöckner spent around an hour in Gaza within the area controlled by Israel 's military on Thursday, as part of her three-day trip. Accompanying journalists were not permitted to join the Bundestag speaker on her brief