BRUSSELS — EU leaders will call for a sustainable ceasefire in Gaza at their summit in Brussels today, the EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says.
“Today the council goes much further” than in previous months, Borrell says before the summit. “Asking for a sustainable ceasefire, certainly asking also for the freedom of hostages, but showing a strong concern for the situation of the people in Gaza, which is unacceptable.”
Borrell calls on Israel to make sure more aid reaches Gaza and says he hopes EU leaders will do the same.
“They are starving. So I hope that the council will send a strong message to Israel, stop blocking, stop preventing the food to come into Gaza and take care of the civilians,” he says.
“Certainly Israel has the right to defend, (but) not to revenge.”
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