More than 42,438 Palestinians have been killed and 99,246 wounded in Israel’s military operation in Gaza since October 7, Gaza’s health ministry said.
“European blame” against the US on Thursday. The EU’s foreign policy chief criticized the United States for giving Israel a full month to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
“The US has been telling Israel that they need to improve humanitarian support to Gaza, but they have given a month’s delay,” Josep Borrell told reporters on the sidelines of an EU summit in Brussels.
“One month late at the current rate of people being killed … It’s too many people,” Borrell added, calling the situation a “catastrophe.”
US officials signaled to Israel on Wednesday that it must take steps next month to improve humanitarian conditions in Gaza or face possible restrictions on US military aid – the strongest warning since the war began a year ago. But this deadline expires after the American elections.
More than 42,438 Palestinians have been killed and 99,246 wounded in Israel’s military operation in Gaza since Oct. 7, Gaza’s health ministry said Thursday.
Humanitarian organizations accuse Israel of deliberately starving and displacing Palestinians in northern Gaza.
US and UN officials warned Israel on Wednesday not to use “famine policy” as a weapon in its war on the Gaza Strip, which Israel denies it is doing.
This is the first time that Washington has warned its ally so clearly, following the letter sent by the US Secretaries of State and Defense, Anthony Blinken and Lloyd Austin, to the Israeli government, calling on it to improve humanitarian access to the Palestinian enclave, even threatening to suspend part of the military aid it receives.
Yesterday, during a new meeting of the UN Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Gaza, American Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield raised the tone: “We have clearly informed the Israeli government, at the highest level, that it must do more to resolve the unacceptable and devastating humanitarian crisis.”
“The government of Israel has stated that food and other vital supplies will not be cut off (from the Gaza Strip), and we will be watching to see if Israel’s actions on the ground match that statement,” Thomas added. – Greenfield.
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