EU’s top diplomat warns Israel can’t defeat Hamas by military means
2024-02-19 09:29:58 source：Politico
February 18, 2024
MUNICH — EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell said Israel needs a political, not a military, solution to the conflict with Palestinians.
He said conversations about peace in the Middle East have focused on Gaza, where Israel is conducting a military campaign that has killed tens of thousands and created over a million refugees in the wake of the October 7 attack by Hamas on Israeli civilians. But Borrell said that the situation in the West Bank, home to about 3 million Palestinians as well as hundreds of thousands of Israeli settlers, is at least as important.
“Yes, we have to end the war in Gaza, but the West Bank is the real obstacle for the two-state solution,” he said during a panel at the Munich Security Conference on Sunday. “The West Bank is boiling.”
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