AGI – The European Union calls for immediate humanitarian pauses in the Gaza Strip, where half of the hospitals are no longer operational, condemns Hamas for using civilians as human shields and urges Israel to resort to “maximum containment.” to protect the civilian population as the war continues. The future of the Palestinian enclave is on the table at the meeting in Brussels of the 27 foreign ministers and the EU’s high representative for foreign policy. Josep BorrellShe said she was “deeply concerned about the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza.”
“We can’t just talk about the current situation in Gaza. We have to start thinking about the post-war solution. This is what ministers should focus on during the discussion. “What will happen next, how can we deal with the situation in Gaza?” not only with reconstruction, but also with the aim of offering an integrated solution to the Palestinian question. This is the real political problem we face: namely, the final solution to the conflict between Israel and Palestine, which has reached such a high level of horror,” said Borrell. “We must seek peace for them. The solution for Gaza cannot be isolated. “I will discuss with the ministers what they think, what they support and what they oppose,” the Brussels diplomatic chief added.
The situation in the Gaza Strip
Thousands of Palestinians hope to leave al-Shifa hospital today, the largest in the Gaza Strip, which has been without water or electricity for days and caught up in fighting between Hamas and the Israeli army.
Meanwhile, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke in an NBC interview about the possibility of an agreement to release some of the approximately 240 hostages kidnapped by Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, a condition he said would be essential to any ceasefire.
“The less I talk about it, the more likely it is that it will become a reality,” Netanyahu said, without elaborating on negotiations to release the hostages, just before the 38-day war was ended on October 7 by a bloody attack by the Islamist movement was triggered with fatalities of approximately 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and unprecedented in Israel’s history.
According to the Hamas Ministry of Health, 11,180 people, mostly civilians, including 4,609 children, have been killed in the Gaza Strip since October 7 by incessant Israeli shelling. The fighting is concentrated in the heart of Gaza Cityin the north of the territory, particularly near some hospitals suspected by the Israeli army of housing strategic infrastructure for Hamas, which uses the population as “human shields,” he said.
The Palestinian territory, where more than 1.5 million of the 2.4 million population have been displaced according to the UN, has been under a total siege by Israel since October 9, depriving the population of water, electricity, food and medicine.
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