EU’s Borrell questions US giving Israel one month to improve Gaza situation

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TOPSHOT — A Palestinian girl helps her mother carry a jerrican of water back from a water distribution point in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 17, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas in the besieged Palestinian territory. (AFP)
  • Israel must take steps over the next month to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza or face potential restrictions on US military aid

BRUSSELS: The EU’s foreign policy chief on Thursday appeared to criticize the United States giving Israel one month to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza, saying that during that time, too many people would die.
“The US has been saying to Israel that they have to improve humanitarian support to Gaza, but they gave one month delay. One month delay at the current pace of people being killed. It’s too many people,” Josep Borrell told reporters in Brussels, adding that the situation was a “catastrophe.”
Israel must take steps over the next month to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza or face potential restrictions on US military aid, US officials said on Wednesday, in the strongest such warning since Israel’s war with Hamas began a year ago.