Iran Press/ Europe: France and Germany, as the two main allies of Israel in Europe, called the regime to reduce the killing and bloodshed.
Germany Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock says Israel must adapt its military strategy to prevent suffering among Palestinian civilians.
“We expect Israel … to allow more humanitarian aid, especially in the north, that its military actions are more targeted and cause fewer civilian victims,” the minister said at a news conference in Dubai on the sidelines of the UN climate summit.
These days, in addition to the war in Gaza, Palestinians are also facing another challenge, such as the violence in the settlement of Nashsnanan in the West Bank.
France’s Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna says sanctions are being considered on actors involved in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Colonna said Paris was worried about the situation in the occupied West Bank “in particular because of the too numerous cases of violence committed by extremist settlers”.
Last week, the US began imposing visa bans on people involved in violence in the West Bank after several appeals for Israel to do more to prevent violence by the settlers.
In Europe Bosnia also expects the US to push Israel ‘to stop killings in Palestine’.
Elmedin Konakovic, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Bosnia and Herzegovina, told Al Jazeera that the US was Bosnia’s most important political partner despite having differing stances on the war in Gaza.
“That doesn’t mean that we agree with everything they [the US] are doing. I’m expecting the authorities from the US to react and to insist actually on the Israeli side to stop this; to stop the killings in Palestine,” he said speaking on the sideline at Doha Forum.
“We have evidence from before that this can happen, even under not so desirable circumstances. At the end of Bosnia’s war, they brought our authorities with the war criminals at that time and mediated in our negotiating of the future of our country, but that’s because there was a willingness on both sides, ours and theirs, to stop the war.”
Konakovic added that while “it’s not easy”, it is possible and “much better than to see all those pictures of hundreds of children dying every day.”
Gaza Health Ministry announced the latest casualty numbers from Israeli army strikes in Gaza as 18,205 people have been killed and 49,645 injured in Gaza since October 7.
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