EU staff condemn ‘inaction that resulted in the full-scale invasion of’ Gaza • FRANCE 24 English

EU staff condemn ‘inaction that resulted in the full-scale invasion of’ Gaza • FRANCE 24 English

as well as a group of eu officials as accusing uh the eu block of failing to act meaningfully in response to the worsening humanitarian situation in gaza the group warning that its inaction has enabled israel’s ongoing military offensive well philip taylor international affairs editor is um still with me here on set philip what’s the basis then for these accusations well well this isn’t a story which was reported to the british state of the guardian uh yesterday it says that there is a group or witness a growing split between uh different groups within the european union um this is a group of eu workers calling themselves eu staff for peace say basically the inaction of the european union has contributed to the environment of unaccountability that resulted in the full-scale invasion of the ga strip taking place at this moment uh they say that the eu has been far too slow to react to do to all of this it is far too divided in its response to what is going on in the ga strip uh and in its condemnation of uh the attitude and the uh way that the israeli prime minister has been handling this affair and that they they want more action taken by uh the european union they want it for example to uh suspend the euisraeli agreement in member states arms exports to israel they also want it to uh pull out of a contract it signed with israel over trade uh which has been signed back in 2000 uh and it wants more action in banning the sale of weapons to uh israel from the european union the problem here stuart is that the eu is a 27 block uh number of nations and they don’t all see eye to eye for example you have spain which is uh much more in favor of being hard towards uh the israeli government and we’re just hearing from sarah morris but you have other countries like germany for example which has just announced again that it’s going to continue its weapon sales to israel because it says israel has a right to defend itself and if if weapon sales stop that would open the door to israel being victim for example uh to attacks from iran or from yemen therefore it should carry on selling weapons to it and also we had ben minetanyahu being welcomed in by victor orban the prime minister of hungary so there is this big divide in the european union but what they’re basically saying is the eu commission the eu parliament and other eu institutions should be much more united uh in their condemnation of what’s going on in gaza but for the moment i’m afraid that looks a bit like a long shot philip thanks very much for tell international affairs

“EU inaction has contributed to the environment of unaccountability that resulted in the full-scale invasion of the Gaza Strip taking place at this moment,” says a group of EU staff called EU staff for peace. For more, FRANCE 24’s International Affairs Editor, Philip Turle.
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