Israel's siege of Gaza is illegal, EU says

"Israel has a right to self-defence, but it has to be done within international law ... cutting water, cutting electricity, cutting food to a mass of civilian people is against international law," said EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Tuesday (10 October).

He repeated the view more than once in his press briefing. "The Palestinian people are also suffering," he added.

An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. This cycle of violence and repression needs to stop.

The UN and EU consider lots of things Israel does illegal. We just don't do anything about it and they don't care.

"And in response we will send 100 billion in lethal aid directly to Israel."

Israelis are doing a genocide in Gaza right now and the whole western world will celebrate it at worst and tut about it at best. Disgusting

Obviously illegal. Collective punishment is a war crime and makes Israel a monster. Imagine if there was a murderer in your building and the feds blew the entire building up.

Where are the sanctions then?

Well, no shit. And nothing will be done about it.

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Israel's actions are a direct consequence of what Hamas did," Borrell's spokesman had said in Brussels earlier the same day.

Uhh, I think you meant to say "Hamas' actions are a direct consequence of what Israel has been doing to Gaza"

Someone should probably do something about that huh

Gaza doesn’t have any oil so nobody will help.

The EU may support Israel, but right now they're calling them out for this bullshit and I'm applauding them for that. Hurting innocent civilians is never a good idea no matter which side of the conflict does it.

Why are they not sending wepons to Palestinians?

Hasn't this always been the case?

Israel has not been a shining example of virtue over the years. I'm not excusing the disgusting actions by the other side, where they are proved true, as some of the pictures have already been discounted, but this would only make Israel come down harder.

I don't the have an answer, but what ever us happening now is certainly not it.

Also EU

Wait! I know what Borrell will do: expel Israel from Eurovision! That will serve them right and start behaving!

I don't expect much more from anything leaded by Borrell. We know him well in Spain.

So was the blockade. and they did nothing about it . bunch of spineless hypocrites

I'm surprised they haven't used phosphorus on Gaza yet.

Where’s Egypt in all of this? Are they going to send aid through the border? Or are IDF goons guarding the border with Egypt as well?

The same people that claim to love ""FREEDOM"" are the same people calling actually real freedom fighters terrorists.

By just having the power to cut water, electricity and food to other ethnic should ring you a fucking bell deep to your throat about the problem!!!

so are you going to sanction them or?

EDIT: I am in the wrong fucking thread lmao

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"Do unto others as others have done unto you.". -- Israel

That was not the best takeaway, but here we are.

I'm going to be real, I doubt they can even muster the will to write a strongly worded letter with the kinds of members who make up the EU.

yeah?

and then they won't do anything.

Did someone manage to email-spam every MEP with pigpoopballs, lmao

Much like that UN report classifying Israel's action against Palestinians as Apartheid (which is criminal in international law), much will be said and very little will be done about this. The state of Israel has been going against international law and agreements for almost its entire existence: see its support for illegal colonies and the walling and ghettoization of the West Bank and Gaza. Israel's government has confidence that the US and NATO won't do anything to stop their criminal actions against Palestinians because that is what they've been doing for the last half century. They will continue to coddle Israel until it fulfills its goal of completely exterminating or expelling Palestinians from the land between the river and the sea, forging a state with a single ethnicity, culture and religion out of Palestine.

PS: just before anyone claims it: no, I do not support gratuitous acts of terrorism by Hamas, just as I don't support Israel's terrorism against Palestinians. All I'm trying to do is point out the historical context of the current conflict, so that nothing is distorted.

Stand up to Zionists!

Blocking neccesities for civiliana like water is a war crime. Encircling enemy state after it lanched offensive to yours is not, otherwise e.g. allies pushing Nazis all the way back to Berlin was also crime.

Hamas should buy some nukes. Let's get the Flame Deluge going already!

Borrell's words were the first direct EU criticism of Israel's reaction to a massacre of about 1,000 Israelis

the atomic unit of propaganda is emphasis

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Is it UNWRA or UNRWA or are they two different agencies because wow with this article.

No you don't understand, what is Israel supposed to do when Palestine does that?

But don't you wonder why Palestine is doing that in the first place? It's because Israel did that thing before.

But Israel did that thing because Palestine did that other thing

But Palestine had no option but to do that because of what Israel did months before

But Israel had done that because of years of that

But how is that Palestine's problem? They only did that because what else would've they done?

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It is war.