The European Commission has proposed this Monday Partially suspend the agreement between the European Union and Israel On the participation of this country in the scientific program Europe Horizon from the EU for the humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip. “The suspension specifically affects the participation of entities established in Israel in activities financed by the accelerator of the European Innovation Council (CEI),” said the European Commission in a statement. The measure, which still has to be analyzed by the States as of Tuesday, is the first sanction proposed by the European Commission within the framework of the Association Agreement with Israel.
The Colegio de Commissioners had convened an extraordinary meeting of the Commissioner College To, among other matters, address this initiative, which is the First concrete action that Brussels proposes to the EU council for the Humanitarian situation in Gaza. The EU reached an agreement with Israel on July 10 for which Tel Aviv committed to the arrival of humanitarian aid to the Palestinian enclave, after weeks of blocking. According to this pact, the community executive must inform the state countries of the situation every two weeks, but more details are unknown.
Asked this Sunday for the truce ruled by Israel to get humanitarian aid to Gaza, the spokesman for foreign affairs of the European Commission, Anouar El AnouniHe told Efe that they were waiting “to the implementation to verify if the terms are being respected.” The maximum representative of community diplomacy, Kaja Kallashe presented on July 15 the Foreign Ministers of the twenty -seven a battery of 10 possible measures against Tel Aviv for their blockade of humanitarian aid among those that were from sanctions to Israeli ministers to the embargo of arms.
This possible round of punishments is part of the Review of the Association Agreement between the EU and Israel That includes both commercial and political relations, after the EU external action service found “indications” that Tel Aviv was violating human rights in the Gaza Strip. However, the twenty -seven preferred to wait for the fruits of this agreement on the entry of humanitarian aid before making any decision.
