{"id":55049,"date":"2024-08-08T15:05:25","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T05:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=55049"},"modified":"2024-08-08T15:05:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T05:05:25","slug":"eu-france-uk-slam-israel-minister-for-gaza-starvation-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=55049","title":{"rendered":"EU, France, UK slam Israel minister for Gaza starvation comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The European Union, France and the UK on Wednesday condemned a far-right Israeli minister for suggesting it would be &#8220;justified and moral&#8221; to starve two million Gazans to free scores of captives held in the Palestinian territory.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No one in the world will allow us to starve two million people, even though it might be justified and moral in order to free the hostages,&#8221; Israel&#8217;s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said at a conference earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are bringing in humanitarian aid because we have no choice. We are in a situation that requires international legitimacy to conduct this war.&#8221;<br \/>\nSmotrich&#8217;s remarks sparked outrage in the international community, with the European Union saying the deliberate starvation of civilians was a &#8220;war crime&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It demonstrates, once again, his contempt for international law and for basic principles of humanity,&#8221; the EU said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We expect the Israeli government to unequivocally distance itself from the words of Minister Smotrich,&#8221; the EU said, as it called for access to cover the humanitarian needs of Gazans, including hundreds of thousands of children.<\/p>\n<p>The EU reiterated its call for an &#8220;immediate ceasefire&#8221; to secure the release of all hostages and also to increase the distribution of aid across the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p>France also criticised Smotrich, expressing its &#8220;deep dismay at the scandalous remarks&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Providing humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza is an &#8220;obligation under international humanitarian law&#8221; for Israel as it controls all access to the territory, it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union, France and the UK on Wednesday condemned a far-right Israeli minister for suggesting it would be &#8220;justified and moral&#8221; to starve two million Gazans to free scores of captives held in the Palestinian territory. &#8220;No one in the world will allow us to starve two million people, even though it might be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2093],"class_list":["post-55049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-eu-france-uk-slam-israel-minister-for-gaza-starvation-comment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}