“In the Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip, we see an appalling lack of calculation in the selection of targets,” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell announced on social networks.
Three Israeli hostages were shot dead
“Recent military operations have killed worshipers, three Israeli hostages and hundreds of other civilians,” he said.
“This has to stop. A humanitarian pause is urgently needed,” he added.
The criticism comes after Israel admitted that its troops mistakenly killed three hostages who escaped from their captors in the Gaza Strip on Friday.
An Israeli soldier shot a Christian Palestinian mother and daughter on the territory of a Catholic church
An Israeli soldier shot and killed a Palestinian Christian mother and daughter on the grounds of the only Catholic church in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said.
On Sunday, Pope Francis deplored the killing of two women in a Catholic parish “where there are no terrorists, but there are families, children, the sick and the disabled.”
The Israeli military said it was investigating the incident.
On October 7, Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on southern Israel. According to Jewish officials, about 1.14 thousand were killed in the attacks. people, mostly civilians, and about 240 people were taken hostage.
In response to these attacks, Israel vowed to destroy Hamas.
The Health Ministry of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip says that since October 7, nearly 20,000 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli military operation in the enclave. people, mostly women and children, and most of the area was reduced to ruins.
27 EU member states disagree on how to assess Israel’s military operations in the Gaza Strip.
Most of them support the call for a cease-fire made by the vast majority of members of the United Nations General Assembly.
But some believe such a move would tie the hands of Israel, which aims to destroy Hamas.
“Too many civilians have been killed in the Gaza Strip, as the foreign ministers of France, Germany and the United Kingdom, among others, have stated,” Mr. Borrell said in his statement.
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2024-08-01 14:52:03
