{"id":410217,"date":"2025-09-09T10:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410217\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T10:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:43:09","slug":"brussels-ready-to-crack-down-on-israel-but-eu-capitals-block-progress-kallas-says-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410217\/","title":{"rendered":"Brussels ready to crack down on Israel but EU capitals block progress, Kallas says \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kallas said that the EU came up with an \u201cinventory\u201d of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-ties-gaza-crisis-genocide-war-palestine-human-rights-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">possible options<\/a> to put pressure on the Israeli government \u2014 including a proposal to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-ties-gaza-crisis-genocide-war-palestine-human-rights-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">halt trade ties<\/a> and suspend the country\u2019s participation in the research and innovation fund Horizon \u2014 but added that \u201cthere is no unity on what should come next.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere have been some positive developments, 2,904 trucks have entered between 10th of July and 1st of September,\u201d Kallas said, \u201cnot a single truck entered [the] Gaza Strip from March to July.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe\u00a0we\u00a0must\u00a0continue\u00a0diplomatic efforts with Israel\u00a0because we cannot get anywhere if we do not talk,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The EU\u2019s foreign policy chief has previously condemned Israel\u2019s blocking of aid for civilians in Gaza, accusing the country of undermining \u201cdecades of humanitarian principles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In June, Kallas also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/israel-undermining-decades-humanitarian-principles-eu-kaja-kallas-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hit back at lawmakers\u2019 accusations of inaction<\/a>, arguing that it\u2019s difficult to move quickly toward tougher action because she needs unanimity among EU governments.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed in Israeli airstrikes and shootings following an attack by Hamas militants on Israel that killed\u00a0some\u00a01,200\u00a0people, most of them civilians.<\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/israel-gaza-city-residents-flee-attacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saturday, Israeli authorities told Gaza City residents<\/a> to flee to what it said to be a humanitarian zone in the south of the coastal enclave, as the Israel Defense Forces prepare to take over Gaza City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kallas said that the EU came up with an \u201cinventory\u201d of possible options to put pressure on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[5293,2000,299,5187,1699,837,1815,7163,2596,839,1814],"class_list":{"0":"post-410217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-diplomacy","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-european-union","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-israel-hamas-war","15":"tag-israeli-palestinian-conflict","16":"tag-kaja-kallas","17":"tag-middle-east","18":"tag-palestine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115173930129368115","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410217","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=410217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}