EU Foreign Affairs chief Josef Borrell calls for parties to help halt escalation of the conflict in the Middle East, and the EU is worried that Israel might extend the war in Gaza to a 'pressure cooker' town near Egypt.
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00:00 Avoid further escalation. That was the message emitted by European foreign
00:05 policy chief Yosef Barel while chairing a meeting with EU foreign ministers.
00:10 Barel said that the Israel-Hamas war had created a domino effect with conflicts
00:15 also erupting in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and in the Red Sea. In a bid to calm the
00:20 escalating violence, Barel said the EU would launch a naval mission in the Red
00:25 Sea this month to help protect international vessels from attacks by
00:29 Yemen's Houthis. We are living a critical situation in the Middle East on the
00:34 whole region. It's no longer just... and as far as the war in Gaza continues, it's very
00:39 difficult to believe that the situation in the Red Sea will improve because one
00:43 thing is related with the other. There's a domino effect in the region.
00:50 25 people died in fresh Israeli strikes overnight with fears Israeli ground
00:57 troops might push the offensive south. As the death toll continues to mount, calls
01:03 for a ceasefire deal continue to grow.
01:08 (whooshing)