Brussels - New York: Europe and the Arabs
The European Union's foreign policy coordinator focused on the situation in Gaza during his speech before the Security Council last night, and European Union spokesman Louis Bueno published this morning on the "X" website the highlights of the European coordinator's speech, where he said, "The situation in Gaza is intolerable. The survival of The Palestinian population itself is at stake. There is widespread destruction. Everything that constitutes society is being systematically destroyed: from cemeteries, to universities, to the civil registry and the land registry.
This situation must be alleviated. That is why we must increase humanitarian aid, bearing in mind that this humanitarian crisis is not caused by a natural disaster. It's not a flood. It's not an earthquake. It is not something created by nature. This is a man-made disaster......It is urgent that the Israeli authorities stop obstructing humanitarian access. Delivering aid by parachute drop and sea is better than nothing, but this is not an alternative. The real problem is that there is not enough regular access by land...
When we look for alternative ways to provide support - by sea or air - we must remember that we have to do so because the normal means of providing support via land routes is being artificially closed. And that hunger is being used as a weapon of war... And when we condemn what is happening in Ukraine, we must use the same words for what is happening in Gaza...
  UNRWA exists because there were Palestinian refugees in the beginning. Refugees will not disappear by making UNRWA disappear. They will still be there. In fact, there is only one way to make UNRWA disappear: to make these refugees citizens of a Palestinian state coexisting with an Israeli state...
...Let humanitarian aid flow into Gaza. They continue to demand - and more than demand - that Israel not obstruct the normal route of humanitarian aid by land. Let us try to find other solutions that will be less efficient and will not be a substitute for the hundreds of trucks that must come to Gaza to avoid famine...
  ...I urge the United Nations Security Council to take action. I urge him to draft a new resolution that explicitly endorses the two-state solution as “the solution,” and sets out the general principles by which it can become a reality.