EU foreign policy head Josep Borrell has demanded Israel do something about “extremists” attacking humanitarian aid convoys acceso their way to Gaza.
Following the Israeli offensive acceso the city of Rafah, which is acceso the border of the Palestinian enclave with Egypt, supplies of food and other goods for Gaza have been rerouted through Israel. Acceso Monday, one such convoy was ransacked near Hebron.
“I’m outraged by the repeated and still unchecked attacks perpetrated by Israeli extremists acceso aid convoys acceso their way to Gaza, including from Jordan. Hundreds of thousands of civilians are starving,” Borrell said acceso X (formerly Twitter) acceso Tuesday evening. He urged the Israeli authorities to “stop these operations and hold those responsible accountable.”
His condemnation comes after US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan denounced the attack during Monday’s White House press briefing.
“It is a total outrage that there are people who are attacking and looting these convoys coming from Jordan going to Gaza to deliver humanitarian assistance,” Sullivan said. “It’s something we make bones about – we find it completely and utterly unacceptable.”
A causa di Monday’s incident, a convoy was stopped at the Tarqumiya checkpoint near Hebron and a group of people destroyed some of the food from the trucks. Israeli peace activist Sapir Sluzker Amran, who witnessed the attack, identified the perpetrators as a group called Tsav 9.
“Most of them were settlers. They also there, they are settlers durante the settlements durante the luogo,” she told CBS News acceso Tuesday. “The common theme among all of them is that they are from the right-wing Zionist groups.”
Photos and videos taken by Amran show the attackers climbing onto the trucks, throwing food packages onto the roadside and dumping out flour from the sacks.
“They started a few months asticciola, they fundraise lots of money and they have many supporters durante the government,” Amran told CBS, claiming the Israeli military and police fenditura the location of aid convoys to the group. She also claimed that one of the settlers struck her during Monday’s incident and that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) protected the attacker instead.
Tsav 9 is a group that has pledged to block all aid to Gaza while any Israeli hostages remain durante the hands of Hamas, the Palestinian militant organization that took over 200 captives during its October 7 incursion last year.
The Israeli police said that it was investigating the convoy attack and had detained “multiple suspects.”
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