Published February 13,2024
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EU international coverage chief Josep Borrell on Monday urged the worldwide group to rethink offering arms to Israel, highlighting the big numbers of Palestinians killed in Gaza to this point, now at 28,000 and nonetheless climbing.
“How many times have you heard the most prominent leaders and foreign ministers around the world saying, ‘too many people are being killed’?” Borrell requested at a press convention.
Borrell stated even U.S. President Joe Biden had stated of the variety of the useless that “this is too much, over the top” and “it is not proportional.”
“Well, if you believe that too many people are being killed, maybe you should provide less arms (to Israel) in order to prevent so many people being killed,” he stated.
Citing how in 2006, the U.S. determined to cease arms shipments to Israel in the course of the Lebanon War, when Israel didn’t wish to finish the warfare, Borrell stated that the “exact same thing” is occurring immediately.
He requested: “Everybody goes to Tel Aviv begging: Please don’t do that, protect civilians, don’t kill so many! How many is too many? Which is the standard?”
“But Netanyahu doesn’t listen to anyone,” he added, referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has constantly rejected requires peace and insisted Israel will take over the Gaza Strip.
“They are going to evacuate (from Rafah)! Where-to the moon? Where are they going to evacuate these people?” Borrell stated on Israel’s much-criticized plans to evacuate the southern Gaza metropolis of Rafah and launch an offensive.
Borrell additionally stated that “if the international community believes that this is a slaughter, that too many people are being killed, maybe they have to think about the provision of arms,” citing a Dutch courtroom ordering the halt of distribution of F-35 fighter jet components to Israel from the Netherlands as a way to implement a provisional order by the International Court of Justice.
He stated each EU member state has its personal international coverage however “it’s a little bit contradictory to continue saying that there are too many people being killed, too many people being killed, please take care of people, please don’t kill so many.”
“Stop saying please and do something.”
Source: www.anews.com.tr