France says the European Union could set up observer missions at border crossings between the Gaza Strip and Israel to try to encourage a lasting truce between the two sides.
“Europe… is ready to do things, particularly through what we call EUBAM, which are forces that could monitor movements between Gaza and Israel,” Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius tells French radio.
The EU had implemented a similar operation in 2005 at the Rafah crossing point between Gaza and Egypt.
In cooperation with Palestinian and Israeli officials, the mission of 70 European police officers monitored movements of people, goods and vehicles at the Rafah crossing, Gaza’s only window to the outside world that bypasses Israel.
But it was suspended in June 2007 after Hamas seized power in the Gaza Strip.
— AFP
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