EU urges Israel's allies to stop supplying weapons after 'huge number of people' killed in Gaza
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Monday urged Israel's allies, led by the United States, to stop sending it weapons after "an enormous number of people" were killed in Gaza.
Referring to U.S. President Joe Biden's comment last week that Israel's military action "crossed the line," Borrell said: "Well, if you think that too many people are being killed, maybe you should not provide weapons to prevent too many people from being killed."
He added, during a press conference in Brussels alongside Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), whom Israel is pressuring to resign: "Doesn't that not make sense?"
"How many times have you heard the most prominent leaders and foreign ministers around the world say that an enormous number of people are being killed?"
The EU's top diplomat also criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to "evacuate" more than one million Palestinians who have taken refuge in the Gaza city of Rafah amid the threat of an Israeli military operation there.
"They will evacuate the area, to where, to the moon, where will they evacuate these people?
(Source: BBC)
