German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock continued her talks in Israel on Thursday, beginning with a morning meeting with Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Jerusalem, according to a spokesman. She is also scheduled to meet Benny Gantz, a minister in the Israeli war Cabinet. The talks are also likely to focus on Israel’s planned military offensive against Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip as well as the humanitarian situation of the Palestinian civilian population on the ground. Israel has been pounding the Gaza Strip with airstrikes, shelling and an ongoing ground offensive with the stated obj…