Iran Press/ Europe: European foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday are set to demand the Israeli regime commits to humanitarian pauses in Gaza as divisions persist over calls for a ceasefire, the bloc's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said.
The 27 member states will work towards calling for "a series of pauses" in fighting in the enclave, said Borrell. Calling for a full ceasefire is not possible due to a lack of consensus, he said, after a US veto at the UN Security Council on Friday.
"Prospects are bleak in Gaza," Borrell emphasized, who added he was "unhappy" with the US veto of the Arab-drafted resolution, tabled by the UAE.
"We have said at G7 meetings and others that Israel shouldn't use the same tactics in the south as in the north of Gaza but it is the same and even worse. So the number of innocent civilians continues to increase," he said.
Borrell, a Spanish politician, was one of the few EU leaders to publicly support UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres's unprecedented warning last week that the war in Gaza was a threat to world peace and security.
There has been no consensus so far among EU member states to call for a ceasefire, though leaders agreed in late October to call for “humanitarian corridors and pauses”. 219
