{"id":261359,"date":"2025-07-13T10:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T10:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/261359\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T10:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T10:38:12","slug":"dozens-of-palestinians-reported-killed-at-aid-station-despite-eu-israel-deal-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/261359\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of Palestinians reported killed at aid station despite EU-Israel deal \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reports cannot be independently verified as media and international observers have been barred from Gaza, but the Red Cross has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icrcnewsroom.org\/story\/en\/1053\/rafah-gaza-unrelenting-tide-of-injuries-in-the-last-fully-operational-hospital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warned of an \u201cunrelenting tide of injuries\u201d<\/a> that threatens to overwhelm the last remaining operational field hospital in the area.<\/p>\n<p>That comes after the EU\u2019s high representative for foreign affairs, Kaja Kallas, said she had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-gaza-aid-israel-palestine-kaja-kallas-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">brokered a deal with Israeli authorities<\/a> to ensure Palestinians could access aid, amid fears of famine, water shortages and an almost total disintegration of the health care system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis deal means more crossings open, aid and food trucks entering Gaza, repair of vital infrastructure and protection of aid workers. We count on Israel to implement every measure agreed,\u201d the former Estonian prime minister declared on Thursday, insisting that humanitarian supplies would begin flowing within days.<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the latest developments.<\/p>\n<p>Top diplomats from EU member states will on Tuesday discuss whether to impose penalties on Israel amid growing pressure from capitals to take action to end the bloodshed. An options paper, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-ties-gaza-crisis-genocide-war-palestine-human-rights-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first obtained by POLITICO<\/a>, reveals Kallas will ask foreign ministers whether there is sufficient support to scale back cooperation with Israel on trade and other key areas.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/israel-breach-eu-deal-over-gaza-human-rights-report-kaja-kallas-palestine-belgium-obligation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a review by the bloc\u2019s foreign service<\/a> concluded \u201cthere are indications that Israel would be in breach of its human rights obligations\u201d under the terms of an EU-Israel association agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The reports cannot be independently verified as media and international observers have been barred from Gaza, but the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[6505,6215,2000,299,5187,1824,4348,2207,4582,2190,6084,837,2596,839,2597,1814,48,2663,1199,1201,49,6507,1116],"class_list":{"0":"post-261359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","9":"tag-cooperation","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-healthcare","15":"tag-hospitals","16":"tag-human-rights","17":"tag-hungary","18":"tag-infrastructure","19":"tag-israel","20":"tag-kaja-kallas","21":"tag-middle-east","22":"tag-military","23":"tag-palestine","24":"tag-rights","25":"tag-sanctions","26":"tag-services","27":"tag-trade","28":"tag-united-states","29":"tag-water","30":"tag-weapons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114845496626214756","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}