27 countries of the European Union struggle to find a united voice on Gaza

For protesters waving Palestinian flags outside the European Union buildings in Brussels, this was the moment when everything could change.

A European Union report presented to foreign ministers found that Israel had indicated that human rights obligations were violated under the European Union-Israel Association Agreement before the summit of Thursday European Union leaders.

The European Union is Israel’s largest trading partner, and the protesters were demanding that the European Union suspended its 25 -year trade agreement on Israeli’s work in Gaza.

But he expects the European Union leaders agree to suspend the agreement with Israel, soon collapsed, as Gaza has deep partitions on war despite the report.

The protesters are supported by over 100 NGOs and donations.

According to the Hamas-Interested Health Ministry, more than 55,000 ghazans have been killed in the 20 months of Israel. Another 1.9 million people have been displaced.

Israel also bought a total blockade on humanitarian aid delivery to Gaza in early March, partially reduced after 11 weeks after pressure from American colleagues and warned global experts that half a million people were facing starvation.

Since then, the United Nations states that more than 400 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli gunmen or shelling, while trying to reach the food distribution centers run by the US and Israel -backed organization. Another 90 has also been killed by Israeli forces while trying to contact a convoy of United Nations and other support groups.

“Every red line has been crossed in Gaza” Oxfam’s Egnes Bertrand-Sange told the BBC.

“Every rule has been violated. It is actually a high time that the European Union works.”

As the report was made public, it fell on Kaja Kalas, the head of the foreign policy, to explain what the European Union would do further.

He said that the first goal of the European Union would be to “change the situation” on the ground in Gaza. If this does not happen, the next month “further measures” will be discussed how to suspend the Association Agreement.

“We will contact Israel, you know, present our discovery,” she staggering an unwanted stagger. “Because it is the focus of the member states, in fact, you know … very, very certainly make sure about the feelings that we have here.”

The NGO said that the European Union missed the opportunity to take action and this response was weak.

Israeli’s Foreign Ministry called the review “a full moral and functioning failure”.

For some critics of the European Union, this episode was a vivid example of how the European Union could talk a good game about being the greatest global humanitarian aid donor for Gaza, but struggles badly to present any consistent or powerful voice to match it.

As the world’s largest market for 450 million people, the European Union carries great economic weight, but it is not translating into political clouts.

“The fact that the European country and Britain are not much to pressurize Israel and implement international human laws are very difficult for these countries to be reliable,” said the United Nations special coordination on the United Nations’s special rights.

“War crime is being done on a very large scale in Gaza, there is a debate about whether it is a quantity for genocide, but even though there is no massacre, is not a duty to act.”

D shutter fears that the soft power of the European Union is losing and its inaction makes it very difficult to persuade countries in Asia for this, for example, Europe returned to Europe to condemn Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Israel it works within international law and its mission is to destroy Hamas and bring the remaining hostages home when Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October 2023. About 1,200 people were killed in the attack, causing an aggressive attack on Gaza to Israel.

As a union of 27 countries, the domestic political reality in Europe is unlikely that most of the members of the European Union will return the views of the member states on Gaza.

Eleven European Union countries have recognized Palestine as a state, and among them Ireland, Spain, Belgium, Slovenia and Sweden suspended the European Union’s agreement.

The European Union Foreign Policy Decision in Brussels is the fact that the decision should be unanimous, and therefore just a dissatisfied voice can prevent the European Union from taking action.

Germany, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia and Czech Republic are all opposing in this case.

Austria hopes that the European Union review will take action, but not necessarily a treaty with Israel.

“Everything I have heard in this regard will not help the people in Gaza,” said External Affairs Minister Beat Meenal-Rister. “Although this is a decline, if we currently do not have complete breakdown of dialogue with Israel.”

The position of Germany on Israel is often shaped by its role in Holocaust and World War Two.

Chancellor Frederick Merz says that “the current level of attacks on Gaza can no longer be justified from the fight against Hamas”, but has refused to consider suspending or abolishing the agreement.

Slovakia and Hungary are considered politically more closely aligned for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu than many other countries of the European Union.

Ireland is among the major players who advocated difficult measures against Netanyahu’s government.

Its Foreign Minister, Simon Harris condemned the operation of the European Union.

“Our response to Gaza has been very slow and many people have been left to die because the massacre has been done,” he said.

Israel dismissed the allegation of genocide and when it closed his embassy in Dublin last December, it accused Ireland of antisemitism.

Europe has recently found himself a bypassing by Washington on large global issues, especially Ukraine and Iran – with President Donald Trump Vladimir Putin of Russia and Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in favor of direct talks.

The US mood may not be listened to, but Gaza has struggled to make an integrated voice on Gaza on Gaza, listening to it alone.

Additional reporting by Brono Boelpap, senior manufacturer in Europe.