The Netherlands' Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp has in a letter to the EU's Foreign Chief Kaja Kallas demanded a review of the union's association agreements with Israel.
Veldkamp – from the conservative party NSC – thinks that the EU must "draw a line in the sand".
We see that the Israeli blockade of humanitarian aid continues and also new developments with decisions from Israel's security cabinet to increase war efforts, statements from Israeli ministers about reoccupying Gaza and total destruction. This is something we cannot tolerate, says Veldkamp.
He is on site in Warsaw where EU countries' foreign ministers are expected to discuss the situation in the Middle East during their informal meeting on Thursday.
His colleague from Belgium is even sharper.
It is time for the EU and the world and the international community to wake up. That as a war strategy to cut off access to humanitarian aid, healthcare, electricity, and water is completely unacceptable. Women and children are starving. I expect a strong reaction from the EU, says the social-conservative Foreign Minister Maxime Prévot.
