Brussels: EU chief, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen has slammed Israel’s ‘abhorrent’ attacks on Gaza civilian sites.
She has denounced as “abhorrent” Israel’s deadly wave of attacks on civilian facilities in Gaza, during a call with Jordan’s King Abdullah II.
“The expansion of Israel’s military operations in Gaza targeting civilian infrastructure, among them a school that served as a shelter for displaced Palestinian families, killing civilians, including children, is abhorrent,” she said, according to a European Commission readout of the call.
On the other hand,the Irish government is set to discuss a bill that would make it illegal to import Israeli goods from illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Ireland’s Prime Minister Micheal Martin said there was an “urgency for the entire world to put pressure on Israel to bring this war to an immediate end”.
The UN has repeatedly stated that Israeli settlements, which lie outside Israel’s internationally recognised borders, are illegal under international law.
Moreover, German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul voices his shock at the Israeli campaign in Gaza, where people are unable to access food and medicine.
“Our committed fight against anti-Semitism and our full support for the right to exist and the security of the state of Israel must not be instrumentalised for the conflict and the warfare currently being waged in the Gaza Strip,” he said in an interview with the WDR broadcaster.
“We are now at a point where we have to think very carefully about what further steps to take,” Wadephul said, without giving further details.
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