Germany and France on Wednesday condemned statements by Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in which he deplored aid for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and described starvation as morally justified. “These are completely unacceptable and outrageous statements by the Israeli Finance Minister. We reject them in the strongest possible terms,” said a spokesman for the Foreign Office in Berlin. “It is an imperative of humanity and a basic principle of international humanitarian law that civilians must be protected in war and must have access to water and food,” the spokesman added. According …