{"id":338783,"date":"2025-08-12T15:36:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T15:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/338783\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T15:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T15:36:15","slug":"eu-and-24-nations-including-uk-japan-urge-action-against-famine-unfolding-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/338783\/","title":{"rendered":"EU and 24 nations including UK, Japan urge action against ‘famine unfolding’ in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"

The European Union, Britain and Japan on Tuesday called for urgent action to stop \u201cfamine\u201d in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe humanitarian suffering in Gaza has reached unimaginable levels. Famine is unfolding before our eyes,\u201d a joint statement signed by the EU\u2019s top diplomat and foreign ministers from 24 countries, including Canada and Australia. said. \u201cUrgent action is needed now to halt and reverse starvation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ministers and EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas also demanded Israel \u201cprovide authorization for all international NGO aid shipments and to unblock essential humanitarian actors from operating.\u201d<\/p>\n

Seventeen European Union countries signed the statement, including France and the Netherlands, as well as countries such as Spain and Ireland that are more stridently critical of Israel.<\/p>\n

Notably absent was Germany, Israel\u2019s staunch supporter in the EU, despite its drastic move<\/a> last week to suspend the export to Israel of military equipment that could be used in Gaza.<\/p>\n

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The move, which came in response to Israel\u2019s decision to take over Gaza City, has sparked controversy in Germany, where top politicians have cast support for the Jewish state as a form of atonement for the Holocaust.<\/p>\n

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People in the al-Mawasi camp in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip carry food parcels and bags that were picked up from the Rafah corridor on July 27, 2025. (AFP)<\/p>\n

The EU struck a deal<\/a> with Israel last month to increase aid access to Gaza, but senior officials have said the agreement has not been implemented fully.<\/p>\n

UN-mandated experts have warned<\/a> that Gaza is slipping into famine, while international organizations have for months accused Israel of restricting aid distribution in Gaza.<\/p>\n

Israel has denied that there is starvation in Gaza, blamed delays in aid deliveries on the UN and accused Hamas of systematically looting aid entering Gaza since the war there was sparked by the terror group\u2019s onslaught of October 7, 2023.<\/p>\n


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