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EU Commission distances itself from genocide regulation to Gaza
Does the EU Commission not only accuses human rights violations, but even genocide? Vice President Ribera’s statements about the topic caused a sensation. Now there is a row back.
The EU Commission, led by Ursula von der Leyen, will not speak of genocide in connection with Israel’s military action in the Gaza Strip. A spokeswoman emphasized in Brussels that Vice President Teresa Ribera did not speak on the name of the Brussels institution on Thursday in a speech in Paris when she used the word genocide. There is no position of the EU Commission on the murder question, she said. It is at courts to decide.
The Spaniard Ribera said on Thursday in a speech at the Parisian Elite University Sciences Po, the “genocide in Gaza” “exposure to Europe” to act together and speak in one voice. In Israel, she triggered outrage. A spokesman for Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected the statement as baseless and unacceptable and accused Ribera of making “the mouthpiece of the Hamas propaganda”.
Ribera sees failure in Europe
With the statements on the EU’s incapacity to act, Ribera alluded to the fact that the EU countries, despite the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, have so far not been able to agree on a punitive measure against Israel proposed by the EU Commission. This provides for an attitude of cooperation as part of the Horizon Europe research promotion program.
The basis of the proposal is an analysis by the EU Commission, according to which Israel violates human rights and humanitarian international law with his approach in the Gaza Strip and the resulting humanitarian disaster. This violates an essential principle of cooperation between the EU and Israel as part of the applicable association agreement means in the text. Thousands of civilian fatalities and a rapidly increasing number of cases of extreme malnutrition, especially in children, are also mentioned.
Israel, on the other hand, defends his approach as a necessary reaction to the terrorist attack of Hamas and other extremists from October 7, 2023. The country requires an release of all hostages deported to the Gaza Strip. Another goal is to disempower and disarm the terrorist organization Hamas.
dpa
Source: Stern
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