Josep Borrell made the remarks at talks on the Israeli regime-Hamas conflict during the EU’s Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg.
“We have to avoid as far as possible a humanitarian crisis in Gaza. In order to achieve this, it is absolutely imperative that we provide humanitarian aid and that the people who need it have access to it,” Xinhua quoted Borrell as saying.
“We have had some first convoys, but not many,” he said. Before the conflict, “there were about 100 lorries a day crossing into Gaza, now it is about 20 a day and the needs are even greater now than before.”
“These first convoys are a positive signal, but we have to increase the number and the speed with which the convoys go in,” he added. “We have to provide medicine, food, and the ministers agreed that we also need to provide the fuel that is necessary to make the desalination plants work.”
A convoy of 20 trucks entered Gaza through Rafah on Saturday, the first in two weeks since the escalation of tensions between the Israeli regime and Palestinians.
The Israeli regime launched the war on Gaza on October 7 after the Palestinian Hamas Resistance group waged a surprise attack, dubbed Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, against the occupying entity.
Hamas said that its operation came in response to the Israeli regime’s violations at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East al-Quds and growing Zionist settler violence.
The Zionist regime has killed and injured thousands of Palestinians in its relentless airstrikes. It has also blocked water, food, and electricity to Gaza, plunging the coastal sliver into a humanitarian crisis.
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