UE will review your association agreement with Israel, says head of the Block Diplomacy

THE European Union (EU) will revise your association agreement with Israel due to the humanitarian situation in Gazaannounced the head of the Block Diplomacy, Kaja Kallas, on Tuesday (20). “We will launch this exercise and, in the meantime, it is up to Israel to unlock humanitarian aid. Saved lives should be our top priority,” Kallas said at the end of an EU foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels. According to Kallas, Tuesday’s ministerial meeting “clearly shows that there is a large majority in favor of the revision of Article 2 of our Association Agreement with Israel.” This article refers to the need for the signatory parties of the agreement to commit to respecting human rights.

Arriving at the meeting on Tuesday, Spain Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares Bueno announced that his country had signed a letter that asked for a revision of the agreement. “Along with three other European Union colleagues, I sent a letter to Kaja Kallas asking for a review of the association agreement between the European Union and Israel,” said the diplomat. Albares stated that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is “unsustainable, unbearable and inhuman.” Therefore, he added, “the time of words is over. It’s time for actions.”

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This Tuesday, the United Kingdom He announced the suspension of negotiations on a free trade agreement with Israel, also due to the catastrophic situation in Gaza. Rescuers in Gaza reported, on Tuesday, the death of at least 44 people in Israeli bombing, which intensified their military operations in the already devastated Palestinian territory in recent days.

*With information from AFP
Posted by Fernando Dias