About to leave his post and while still in kyiv for one of his last trips as head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell attacked Israel for the latest attacks on Gaza, which caused dozens of deaths. The high representative accused Benjamin Netanyahu of violating international law by forcing the displacement of the population and using hunger as a weapon of war.
“The words ethnic cleansing are increasingly used to describe what is happening in northern Gaza,” Borrell warned in several messages posted on the Israeli forces’ social network. Borrell recalled that UN reports indicate famine in northern Gaza, which has been virtually besieged for months.
“It is necessary to avoid this man-made catastrophe. “Israel, as the occupying power, has an obligation to act by allowing aid in,” said Borrell, who called on the international community and Israel’s “key allies” to take action. to “end the suffering of the Palestinians and for the release of hostages” held by Hamas since the attacks of October 7.
“It is necessary for all parties to act in a few days and not in a week,” he insisted in these messages published while he is still in Ukraine, in what will be his last trip to this country in as high representative. There, he had to stay in a shelter for a little over an hour after alarms went off across almost the entire territory due to several Russian planes capable of launching missiles.
“For there to be peace and not just a ceasefire, it must be just and lasting and it is a warning to those who say that because this war must end, we must end it on sooner rather than later, in any way possible,” Borrell said. the media who accompanied him during his visit to the town of Cherníguiv, in northern Ukraine, reports the EFE agency. His comments come after Donald Trump’s victory in the United States, which worries the EU, among other things, because of the possibility that he will stop supporting Ukraine and force a concession from Vladimir Putin.
