The bloc’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, told reporters after a much-awaited meeting with her EU counterparts in Brussels that the EU will discuss “further measures” on how to suspend its association agreement with Tel Aviv at its next meeting in July if Israel doesn’t “improve the situation” in Gaza. Changing the situation on the ground is our first goal,” Kallas stated. “We can talk about additional steps and return in July if the situation does not improve.
A few days before to her speech, Kallas had shown the ministers an eight-page analysis of the bloc’s EU-Israel association agreement, claiming that there were “indications” that Israel would violate its human rights commitments.
However, the conference also occurred in the midst of historically high Middle East tensions, almost twenty-four hours after the United States joined Israel in striking Iran’s nuclear sites and striking three important Iranian military installations.
In a letter to the EU obtained by Euronews, Israel also attacked the review of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, stating that “this report and its conclusions should not be taken seriously or used as a basis for any future actions or conversations.”
Europeans have been “scrambling to see how to react” to the US military participation, despite diplomats’ insistence that Iran and the Gaza conflict are two distinct crises, according to one diplomat.
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