00:00The EU's foreign policy chief has said the bloc should consider sanctions on some Israeli
00:06government ministers over their remarks about the war in Gaza.
00:11Josep Borrell said some members of the Israeli cabinet, who he didn't name, had released
00:15hateful messages and proposed things which clearly go against international law.
00:21And I think that European Union has not to have taboos in order to use our toolbox in
00:29order to make humanitarian law respected. But it's not my decision. I only have the
00:35capacity of proposal. Member states will decide.
00:41But the 27 EU member countries are divided over their approach to the war in Gaza and
00:46it's unlikely that all would agree to the proposal. There's already been pushback to
00:51the suggestion from Italy's foreign minister who called it unrealistic.
00:55We have to try to solve the problems, convince Israel to make choices which will lead to
01:02a ceasefire in Gaza, because this is the real priority. It's not with the recognition of
01:09the theoretical Palestine, with the sanctions on Israeli ministers, that the problem is
01:15solved. We need more diplomacy, we need messages.
01:20Those comments come on the same day the World Health Organization announced that Israel
01:24had agreed to limited pauses in fighting in Gaza to allow a polio vaccination campaign
01:29to go ahead. Described as humanitarian pauses that will last three days in different areas
01:34of the territory, the vaccination program will start on Sunday and will be run together
01:39with UNICEF, UNWR and local partners.
01:42I'm not going to say this is the ideal way forward, but this is a workable way forward.
01:49Not doing anything would be really bad. We have to stop this transmission in Gaza and
01:55we have to avoid the transmission outside Gaza.
02:01The WHO says it aims to vaccinate 640,000 children under the age of 10 and that the
02:07campaign had been coordinated with Israeli authorities.
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