EU urges Israel to guarantee immediate access to Gaza
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Le Monde and BFMTV
The European Union is calling on Israel to guarantee immediate and unimpeded access to Gaza, after bad weather flooded tens of thousands of tents housing displaced people and killed at least five people, including three children. According to Le Monde, the rains have killed at least five people since the end of last week, according to Palestinian rescue services.
Since the end of last week, rains have flooded tens of thousands of tents sheltering displaced people in the Gaza Strip, and caused the deaths of five people, including three children, according to Palestinian rescue services. The EU’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, urges Israel, in a statement, to allow "immediate" and "unimpeded" access for the delivery of humanitarian aid and to reopen every border crossing leading into the territory.
For the EU, the flooding and winter conditions are worsening an already "devastating" humanitarian crisis. Kaja Kallas also considers the recent airstrike on Nasser hospital "deeply worrying". On Thursday, Israeli strikes killed 11 people in the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian rescuers, six of them at the hospital struck in Khan Younis, in the south of the enclave. The Israeli army confirms it struck this hospital, saying it targeted a senior Hamas official and other members of its armed wing.
