Germany delays Holocaust survivor restitution

Israeli officials outraged at Germany's decision to withhold compensation from Jewish WWII laborers claiming issue has been linked to Israel's relationship with neighbors

State officials in Jerusalem are enraged by the fact that German Chancellor Angela Merkel's office is intentionally delaying urgent deliberations on reparations for Holocaust survivors who were held in Nazi labor camps.

According to the sources in Jerusalem, this is a "creation of the criminal and unacceptable connection between handling a humanitarian issue connected to the victims of the German crimes during WWII and the political issue standing between Israel and its neighbors."

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