Two weeks after the European Commission set up a plan to impose a plan to impose a first-time punishment on Israel, the proposal has stalled due to disagreement between the members of the block.
Germany is seeking more time for reviews between hold-outs, the European Union (EU) diplomats told DW. Without Berlin’s support, the plan is unlikely to pursue.
The European Union executive warned on Tuesday, “Human suffering in Gaza has reached unimaginable level, the famine has been revealed to our eyes.”
In the bid to pressurize Israel to replace the course, it left Israel’s startups when it reaches part of a pot of research of the European Union known as “Horizon Europe” in late July.
This marked a change in the approach of the European Union: first went back in one year and half important words with block action.
The European Union says that Israel is ‘violating human rights’
“With the intervention of Gaza Strip and its intervention in the upcoming human catastrophe, the number of thousands of citizens deaths and rapid growing extreme malnutrition is especially violated by children, Israel is violating human rights and human laws and thus written on the proposal of the European Union,” European Commission has written on its proposal.
Belgian Foreign Minister Maxim Prevot floated on August 13 as a possible date for adoption if it had reached the consensus, but the European Union sources reported that there was very little change in the posts in a virtual meeting of European Union ministers on Monday.
This means that now, there is no green light.
To kick, the European Union’s plan requires support from the so -called majority of 27 member states of BLOC, a system that leads to the most weight under the views of more population countries.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry called the proposal to ban Brussels’ proposal “and claim that any discovery would be to only strengthen the punitive measures” to strengthen “Hamas – something that rejects the block.
The ‘shortest step’ proves to be problematic
In the action of the European Union, Standing has expressed displeasure with campaigners and human rights watchdogs, who have been accused of failing to use a long -standing leverage.
Bushra Khalaidi of Oxfam told DW, “The fact that the European Union could not agree on the smallest step.
The internal divisions that take action on the brake are nothing new.
Since the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023, the block has been united in its honor of the terrorist group – classified by the European Union as a terrorist organization – and in its call for the release of Israeli hostages.
But this is the place where unity ends. Europe’s relations with Israel have been fiercely debated on every word of every word since then.
no Deal
Scholarship between European Union members is now focused on whether and how to respond to the European Union review Which found Israeli’s action in Gaza, in which aid entry was banned for targeting journalists, which is for a break of the deal that the Governor European European Union-Israeli trade and relations.
In a leaked leather letters by DW, Israel exploded the investigation of the European Union based on biased evidence as “moral and methodical failure”, but the block clings to its conclusions.
Now Spain, Ten Lakes, as a terrible critic of the Israeli government, is calling the entry to suspend the EU-Israel Treaty.
Other European Union members including the Netherlands and Sweden – traditionally seen as a low critical of Israel – want to freeze the business element of the deal. The move made it more difficult and spends for Israeli firms to export Israeli’s top trading partner to the European Union.
On the other hand, Germany looks at the form of a historical responsibility towards the safety of Israel, due to the systemic murder of six million Jews during its Nazi past and Holocost.
Although Berlin is the first to occupy the European Union-level measures, Chancellor Merz announced last week that Germany stopped exporting arms “which could be used in the Gaza Strip” indicated a change in tone by Israeli forces.
Support agreement decreases
The European Union says that its priority is helping to flow in Gaza, which is due to a humanitarian crisis – and after threatening the restrictions, The block announced what a success appeared last month.
“The Gaza Strip has agreed by Israel to improve the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip on the so -called” common understanding “on July 10, the top diplomat of the European Union, Kalas has agreed to the important steps by Israel to improve the humanitarian situation.”
But on weeks, many European Union capitals say this is very low. With proposals for action caught in institutional deadlock, European Union officials continued their words.
On August 3, Hadaza Lahbib, head of the European Union crisis management, said, “I call for immediate release of all Israeli mortgage by Hamas and Islamic Jihad.”
Edited by: Carla Blekar
