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Thursday, March 14, 2024
Czech envoy says she hasn’t seen any Israeli limits to aid going into Gaza
Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter
The Czech ambassador to Israel says she hasn’t seen “any limits on what [humanitarian aid] Israel lets into Gaza.”
“I see limits in the logistics working in Gaza,” Veronika Kuchyňová Šmigolová tells The Times of Israel. “Hamas rules parts of Gaza… and parts of Gaza are lawless.”
The Czech Republic is a member state of the European Union, whose foreign policy chief accused Israel yesterday of using starvation as a tool of war.
“The problem is distribution within Gaza,” says Šmigolová. “The problem is not the delivery of aid to Gaza as such.”
She adds that the fledgling maritime corridor from Cyprus “might solve the situation in the north. It might help to weaken remaining Hamas structures.”
