US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said this time the group would be given the opportunity to “rest, reequip and continue to launch terrorist attacks against Israel.”
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You US warned this Monday the 23rd of a ceasefire Israel In Gaza would benefit that Hamaswhile European Union is considering a request for a humanitarian pause in hostilities. “A ceasefire would give Hamas the opportunity to rest, reequip and continue to launch terrorist attacks against Israel,” US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters. “One can fully understand why it is an untenable situation for Israel, because it would be an untenable situation for any country that has suffered such a brutal terrorist attack and continues to see the terrorist threat right on its border,” he said. Miller said the United States is doing everything it can to ensure the arrival of humanitarian aid in Gaza and that its envoy David Satterfield is working “intensively” on the ground on the issue.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Monday he hoped bloc leaders would support a call for a ceasefire in the war to allow aid to flow. “I believe that the idea of a humanitarian pause to facilitate the arrival of humanitarian assistance and allow displaced people to find refuge is something that leaders will support,” he said. Borrell expressed his opinion without commenting on the outcome of the meeting, but predicted that the bloc’s leaders would discuss the issue further at their summit on Thursday and Friday. He later reported that European Union (EU) countries had reached a “basic consensus” on the need for a “humanitarian pause” in Gaza. “There is a general consensus that a pause on humanitarian grounds would be very necessary so that humanitarian assistance can be provided without running the risk of a continued war effort,” Borrell said in a press conference at the end of the meeting they held today Luxembourg the EU foreign ministers. However, the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs stressed that a humanitarian pause is not the same as a ceasefire and that bloc leaders will decide the bloc’s position at their summit in Brussels on Thursday and Friday. Borrell acknowledged that “a pause is a less ambitious goal than a ceasefire,” but noted that a pause can be agreed “more quickly” and that ministers “understand” that it is even necessary for humanitarian aid to arrive and not also a “victim” of a “war action”. In this sense, he stressed that “the EU cannot order a humanitarian pause, the parties to the conflict must order it”.
On Thursday the 26th, the safety instructions from that U.N. (United Nations) meets again to discuss this War in the Middle East between Israel and the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. Last Wednesday the 18th, the Council rejected Brazil’s resolution on war in the Middle East. The Brazilian proposal received twelve votes in favour, one against and two abstentions from the United Kingdom and Russia. You US were responsible for vetoing the proposal on the grounds that the text does not mention Israel’s right to defend itself. For a resolution to be adopted, it must have the votes of at least 9 of the 15 members of the Council, including the permanent members the United Kingdom, China, France, Russia and the United States. The rotating council countries are: Albania, Brazil, Ecuador, Gabon, Ghana, Japan, Malta, Mozambique, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates. At least 6,000 deaths have been recorded so far, including 5,087 on the Palestinian side Gaza Stripand 1,400 in Israel.