EU's top diplomat urges Israel to respect rules of war in Gaza Strip

EU diplomacy chief Josep Borrell said Israel must take into account the rules of war when bombing the Gaza Strip.

At the same time, he noted that the actions of the Palestinian Hamas movement against Israel are a terrible and unjustified attack on citizens. Still, “war has rules,” the Spanish newspaper Pais quotes him as saying.

The situation in the Middle East escalated following the infiltration of thousands of Hamas militants from the Gaza Strip into Israel on October 7, when Hamas announced the launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.