The Israeli ground offensive, which aims to occupy the city of Gaza, will only worsen the already desperate situation in the Palestinian enclave, warned on Tuesday EU diplomacy chief Kaja Kallas. The European Commission plans to present a package of measures against Israel on Wednesday, which It includes suspension of part of the Association Agreement and the imposition of sanctions on government ministers and settlers on the West Bank of Jordan. According to the AFP report, TASR reports this.
Israel announced on Tuesday the beginning of the long -awaited ground operation in Gaza. The aim of this offensivewhose plan was approved by the government in August, It is, according to Israeli officials to take control of the citywhich they consider one of the last bastions of the Hamas militant movement.
“It will mean more deaths, more destruction and more displacement,” She wrote Kallas on X. On the margo of the upcoming measures by the EC, she said that they would be pushing the Israeli government to change her current course. “The suspension of business benefits and the imposition of sanctions on extremist ministers and violent settlers would clearly sign that the EU demands the end of this war,” added.
The Israeli invasion began on the outskirts of Gaza, where the army intensified its air attacks over the past week and destroyed several high -rise buildings. One of the unnamed sources for CNN stated that the ground operation would initially be “gradually”.
Investigators of the UN Council for Human Rights (UNHRC) on Tuesday morning said they concluded that Since October 2023, Israel has been committed in the Palestinian Gaza “Genocide with the intention of destroying the Palestinians” and that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Yicchak Herzog and former Defense Minister Joav Galant.
The report states that Israel committed killing and serious injury to an unprecedented number of Palestinians, imposed a complete blockade on the Gaza band, including the supply of humanitarian aid and systematically destroyed healthcare and education systems. In addition, he also committed the systematic acts of sexual and gender -related violence, carried out direct attacks on children, systematic and extensive attacks on religious and cultural monuments, and also ignored the orders of the International Court of Justice (MSD).
An investigation into the three -member independent commission shows that Israel has committed at least four of the five acts mentioned in the UN Convention of 1948 – killing, causing severe physical or mental harm, deliberate living conditions to destroy the entire or part of the Palestinian population. The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Commission’s investigation categorically rejected as “distorted and false” and called for immediate cancellation.
