EU Demands Israel Permit NGOs into Gaza
Senior EU officials emphasized Gaza's deteriorating humanitarian crisis as winter intensifies and aid organizations encounter severe operational constraints.
In a unified declaration, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas and commissioners Hadja Lahbib and Dubravka Suica described worsening conditions for Gaza civilians, citing torrential rainfall, plummeting temperatures, and insufficient safe housing.
They reported children remain deprived of education while medical infrastructure is "barely functioning, with minimal staff and equipment."
The resolution establishes a peace board and temporary international stabilization force within a comprehensive framework to terminate the Gaza conflict.
According to EU officials, the European Council "called on all parties to implement the Resolution in its entirety, and in line with relevant international legal principles, and committed to contributing to implementation."
The European Council underscored the critical necessity for humanitarian aid to reach Gaza, stressing "the need for the rapid, safe and unimpeded delivery and sustained distribution of humanitarian aid, at scale, into and throughout Gaza."
It pressed Israel against advancing legislation governing non-governmental organization registration.
The joint statement indicated the EU was calling on Israel "to allow international NGOs to operate and deliver life-saving aid to civilians in need in Palestine."
Officials cautioned that constraining international aid organizations would trigger severe repercussions. "Without these international NGOs, humanitarian aid cannot be delivered at the scale needed to prevent further loss of life in Gaza," the statement said.
They emphasized effective aid delivery requires international NGOs to function in a "sustained and predictable way," warning that absent such access, "life-saving assistance cannot reach people in need."
Since the ceasefire implementation, the Israeli military has committed hundreds of violations, killing 422 Palestinians and wounding 1,189 others, according to the Health Ministry.
The ceasefire ended Israel's two-year military campaign that killed nearly 71,400 Palestinians, predominantly women and children, injured more than 171,200 others since October 2023, and devastated the enclave.
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