EU Urges Israel to Ensure ‘Immediate and Unimpeded’ Aid Delivery to Gaza
The European Union (EU) has strongly urged Israel to allow aid agencies immediate access to Gaza to assist residents affected by devastating floods. The bloc has also called for the reopening of all border crossings into the besieged territory.
The EU made the call in a statement issued on Saturday (November 14). In the statement, the bloc said, “We call on Israel to allow the immediate and unimpeded entry and continuous distribution of humanitarian aid and early recovery assistance into Gaza at scale. We also call for the reopening of all border crossings into Gaza.”
Last week, Israel’s military body, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), claimed that it had stepped up efforts to improve Gaza’s sanitation and healthcare systems in coordination with international organisations ahead of heavy rainfall.
Meanwhile, Israel has rejected allegations that it is preventing sufficient humanitarian aid from entering Gaza. It claimed that such accusations against COGAT were merely an attempt to “divert attention from Hamas’s responsibility”.
Source: The Times of Israel
