{"id":281280,"date":"2025-07-22T01:32:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T01:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/281280\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T01:32:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T01:32:30","slug":"western-diplomatic-chiefs-eu-commissioner-lahbib-condemn-israels-treatment-of-gaza-civilians-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/281280\/","title":{"rendered":"Western diplomatic chiefs, EU Commissioner Lahbib condemn Israel\u2019s treatment of Gaza civilians \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

The foreign ministers\u2019 statement came after over 100 people seeking aid from distribution sites and U.N. food trucks were reported killed by Israeli gunfire<\/a> over the weekend, and as Israel on Monday announced a new offensive<\/a> in central Gaza.<\/p>\n

In a post on social media<\/a>, Israel\u2019s foreign ministry said the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had \u201cfired warning shots in order to remove an immediate threat posed to them\u201d on Sunday, and that \u201cthe number of casualties reported does not align with the information held by the IDF.\u201d<\/p>\n

It blamed Hamas militants for \u201cseek[ing] to create friction\u201d and said \u201cthe IDF views the transfer of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip as a matter of utmost importance, and works to enable and facilitate its entry in coordination with the international community.\u201d<\/p>\n

But that claim was refuted in the statement signed by Lahbib and the foreign ministers of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the U.K., Norway, Japan, Iceland, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Israeli government\u2019s aid delivery model is dangerous, fuels instability and deprives Gazans of human dignity,\u201d the statement said. \u201cThe Israeli Government\u2019s denial of essential humanitarian assistance to the civilian population is unacceptable\u201d and Israel \u201cmust comply with its obligations under international humanitarian law.\u201d<\/p>\n

The statement was notably not signed by EU foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio or German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul. Washington and Berlin have steadfastly supported Israel throughout its 22-month war in Gaza, launched in response to Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7, 2023 attack.<\/p>\n

Wadephul, however, wrote on X Monday<\/a> that he had communicated to his Israeli counterpart his \u201cdeepest concern about the catastrophic humanitarian situation\u201d and urged Israel to \u201curgently \u2026 implement the agreements with the EU to facilitate humanitarian aid.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The foreign ministers\u2019 statement came after over 100 people seeking aid from distribution sites and U.N. food trucks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[186,7907,1789,943,6659,8612,473,365,32,1112,2000,299,5187,769,36,39,1450,58868,7059,678,837,7163,2199,2122,2596,1113,1114,1215,24479,2820,809,704,1115,770,3046,13492,104,812,2600,3053,15,49,771],"class_list":{"0":"post-281280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-austria","10":"tag-belgium","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-crisis","13":"tag-cyprus","14":"tag-defense","15":"tag-denmark","16":"tag-donald-trump","17":"tag-estonia","18":"tag-eu","19":"tag-europe","20":"tag-european","21":"tag-finland","22":"tag-france","23":"tag-fuels","24":"tag-greece","25":"tag-hadja-lahbib","26":"tag-iceland","27":"tag-ireland","28":"tag-israel","29":"tag-israeli-palestinian-conflict","30":"tag-italy","31":"tag-japan","32":"tag-kaja-kallas","33":"tag-latvia","34":"tag-lithuania","35":"tag-luxembourg","36":"tag-malta","37":"tag-marco-rubio","38":"tag-negotiations","39":"tag-new-zealand","40":"tag-norway","41":"tag-poland","42":"tag-portugal","43":"tag-slovenia","44":"tag-spain","45":"tag-sweden","46":"tag-switzerland","47":"tag-the-netherlands","48":"tag-united-kingdom","49":"tag-united-states","50":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281280","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=281280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}