Brussels – Zaytoun News
A senior European Union official has stated that Israel’s military actions in Gaza “look very much like” genocide. Speaking to Politico, European Commission Executive Vice President Teresa Ribera said, “A concrete population is being targeted, killed, starved, and denied access to basic needs, while being bombed even when seeking aid.”
Ribera urged the EU to consider suspending the EU-Israel Association Agreement and called on member states not to block potential measures by abstaining rather than opposing them.
“If this isn’t genocide, it closely resembles its legal definition,” she said, warning that continued inaction would damage the EU’s credibility as a moral and political force.
Since October 2023, Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed over 61,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, injured more than 150,000, and displaced nearly two million people in what is considered the largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.
Israel unilaterally ended the Gaza ceasefire agreement and resumed its aggression on the Strip on Tuesday, March 18, carrying out a wave of bloody airstrikes across the Strip and killing hundreds of Palestinians.
The death toll reached at least 9,752 with 40,004 others wounded, according to medical sources. In the last 24 hours, the bodies of 100 slain Palestinians, including two retrieved from the rubble, and 603 casualties were admitted to Gaza hospitals.
Israel has waged a military onslaught on the Strip since October 2023, killing 61,258 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring 152,045 others.
Moreover, at least 10,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.
The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.
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