EU to review trade and cooperation with Israel over Gaza offensive
A majority of the European Union's foreign ministers backed a Dutch proposal to review the bloc's ties with Israel over its actions in Gaza.
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A majority of the European Union's foreign ministers backed a Dutch proposal to review the bloc's ties with Israel over its actions in Gaza.
READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/05/20/eu-to-review-its-trade-and-cooperation-with-israel-over-gaza-offensive
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00:00The European Union will review its trade and cooperation deal with Israel over its widening
00:07offensive in Gaza and its failure to fully lift a nearly three-month aid blockade.
00:14It will now launch a review to establish whether Israel has breached human rights obligations
00:20under the EU-Israel Association Agreement, a treaty that governs political and trade
00:26ties.
00:2817 of the bloc's foreign ministers backed the move, nine voted against and one abstained.
00:35I think what it tells is that the countries see that the situation in Gaza is untenable
00:43and what we want is to really help the people and what we want is to unblock the humanitarian
00:49aid so that it will reach the people there.
00:53The European Union is Israel's largest trade partner.
00:57With annual trade worth more than €45 billion, Israel has rejected the EU's decision, saying
01:03its military actions are defensive in response to a war initiated by Hamas.
01:09Foreign Ministry spokesperson Oren Marmorstein said criticism of Israel emboldens the Hamas
01:14militant militant group and risks prolonging the conflict.
01:17NATO
01:18The European Union has been held by a 7-1-0-1-1 war.
01:19The European Union has been held by the European Union charges in Russia.
01:23The European Union has built a war by the Western Union as a war.
01:25The European Union is a longer- backend, the European Union has been held by a war.
01:26This Economic Union has been held by the European Union, saying it is the regime to
01:27others' war.