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EU member states wary on Kallas' 10 options for action against Israel
The EU's top diplomat Kaja Kallas is set to offer an exhaustive list of 10 possibilities for the EU to respond to Israel's action in Gaza during a meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels this week, but EU diplomats told Euronews there's little appetite across the EU to take any action against Tel Aviv. Kallas' 10 options include suspending visa free travel and blocking imports from the Jewish settlements in response to Israel's breach of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, according to a document issued by Kallas's office seen by Euronews. The proposals, which are listed with their legal basis and the procedure required to adopt them, include suspending the entire EU-Israel Association Agreement, halting political dialogue with Israel, or barring Tel Aviv access to EU programs, all of which require unanimous support from the EU's 27 member states. But the document also lists other options including 'suspension of trade preferences' with Israel and a halt of the EU-Israel Aviation agreement, which would require a qualified majority vote, meaning 55% of member states representing at least 65% of the total EU population. The document is the result of Kallas's efforts to follow up on a review of the human rights clause of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, which found that Israel is in breach of the agreement due to violations in Gaza and the West Bank. Kallas was originally preparing to offer ministers with five options, but the EU's top diplomat has decided to double down on the list and 'include measures that member states can opt for unilaterally without needing a Commission proposal', according to one EU diplomat. Diplomats told Euronews that member states are unlikely to choose to back any of the options for action for a number of reasons. First, some countries insist the EU should it should wait to see the result of an agreement brokered by Kallas last week attempting to imrpove the flow of aid to Gaza. The EU announced on Thursday that it had negotiated a "significant" improvement of humanitarian aid access into Gaza, including an increase of food trucks, and an agreement to "protect the lives of aid workers'. A Kallas spokesperson told reporters on Friday that as a result of the agreement, Israel had opened the Zikim border crossing, allowed entry of fuel and repair water pipes, 'together with the reopening of the Jordanian route'. Countries waiting to see results of new humanitarian agreement Secondly, the EU is still far too divided on the issue, and many countries - including the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary and Italy - are unwilling to sanction Israel if the situation on the ground improves, opposing the idea of suspending the EU-Israel Association Agreement in part or full. Ireland and Spain remain eager to take action against Israel, with the former already moving to vet imports from Israeli settlements in the West Bank, becoming the first EU country to do so. For many diplomats, any further steps will depend on Israel's implementation of the humanitarian agreement brokered last week. 'Kallas insisted to the Israelis that it cannot just be an agreement on paper it needs to be implemented on the ground,' one diplomat said. 'It depends if Israel puts the Kallas plan into action on the ground,' said another EU diplomat. 'If we can see some results by Tuesday, I think that will be an important sign from the side of Israel that they have agreed to do this and are willing to implement it," said a third. Meanwhile Israeli airstrikes are ongoing as is the blockade, despite the announcement, the third diplomat pointed out. The Israeli military launched its Gaza campaign in response to the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage. At least 57,823 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.
Euronews
2 hours ago
- Euronews
Israeli strikes kill dozen as Palestinian war deaths top 58,000
Israeli strikes killed at least 32 people in Gaza on Sunday as the Palestinian death toll surpassed 58,000 after 21 months of war, according to local health officials. Officials at the Al-Awda Hospital in central Gaza said it received ten bodies following an Israeli strike on a water collection point in nearby Nuseirat. Six children were reportedly amongst the dead. The Israeli Defence Forces said it was targeting a militant but a technical error made its munitions fall 'dozens of metres from the target.' Separately, health officials said an Israeli strike hit a group of citizens walking in the street on Sunday afternoon in central Gaza City, killing 11 people and injuring around 30 others. In the central town of Zawaida, an Israeli strike on a home killed nine, including two women and three children, officials at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital said. Later, Al-Awda Hospital said a strike on a group of people in Zawaida killed two. Israel's military said it was unaware of the strike on the home, but said it hit more than 150 targets over the past 24 hours, including what it called weapons storage facilities, missile launchers and sniping posts. Israel blames Hamas for civilian casualties because the militant group operates out of populated areas. Despite months of talks aimed at securing a ceasefire, freeing Israeli hostages and getting humanitarian aid into Gaza, Israel and Hamas remain deadlocked. A key sticking point centres on whether Israeli troops should remain deployed during any pause in fighting. Israel says it will end the war once Hamas surrenders, disarms and goes into exile – something Hamas refuses to do. Hamas says it is willing to free the remaining 50 hostages, about 20 of whom are said to be alive, in exchange for the war's end and the full withdrawal of Israeli forces. The war began when Hamas militants attacked southern Israel on 7 October 2023, killing around 1,200 people, most of them civilians. Hamas took 251 people as hostages. A subsequent Israeli offensive has to date killed more than 58,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, whose figures do not distinguish between fighters and civilians. The Israeli military says 890 of its soldiers have died since the start of the war.
Euronews
13 hours ago
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Dozens killed in Gaza by Israeli strikes, authorities say
Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip have killed at least 30 people on Sunday, 17 of which at a water collection point, including six children, according to local health officials. Separately, Hamas authorities said an Israeli strike hit a group of citizens walking in the street on Sunday afternoon in central Gaza City, killing 11 people and injuring around 30 others. Dr. Ahmed Qandil, who specializes in general surgery, was among those killed, Gaza's Health Ministry said. A ministry spokesperson, Zaher al-Wahidi, told the Associated Press that Qandil had been on his way to Al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital. Concerning the deadly strike at the collection point, the Israeli Defence Force said there had been a technical error: 'Earlier today a strike was carried out targeting a terrorist operative from the Islamic Jihad organization in the central Gaza Strip. Due to a technical malfunction in the munition, it struck dozens of meters away from the intended target'. 'The incident is under investigation. We are aware of reports of casualties in the area as a result, and the details of the incident are still being reviewed,' the military added. Truce talks deadlocked Meanwhile, Israel and Hamas appeared no closer to a breakthrough in indirect talks aimed at pausing the war and free more Israeli hostages after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Washington visit last week. Netanyahu defended his efforts against critical reporting in the Israeli Hebrew press in a video update posted to his X account: 'It was a very successful visit, following a major victory in Iran… We have a lot of tasks to do, and I'm determined to complete them'. Responding to claims that he and his government are obstructing a deal, Netanyahu charges that Hebrew-language media 'are always echoing Hamas propaganda, and they're always wrong.' A new sticking point has emerged over Israeli troops deployment during a ceasefire. Israel says it will end the war only once Hamas surrenders, disarms and goes into exile, something Hamas refuses to do. Hamas says it is willing to free all the remaining 50 hostages, about 20 of them said to be alive, in exchange for an end to the war and the full withdrawal of Israeli forces. Throughout the war in Gaza, violence has also surged in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Funerals were held there Sunday for two Palestinians, including visiting Palestinian-American Sayfollah Musallet, who was killed by Israeli settlers, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. Musallet's family has requested that the US State Department investigate his death and hold the settlers accountable. The State Department said it had no comment out of respect for the family.
