According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, at least five people were killed on Wednesday in Israeli strikes in Tubas, in the north of the occupied West Bank.
Violence has increased in the occupied West Bank since the start of the war in Gaza. Israel is also stepping up its colonisation policy in this territory, raising concerns in Brussels.
During his trip to Cairo, where he was taking part in a meeting of the Arab League, the head of European diplomacy said on Monday that he feared seeing the West Bank “turn into a new Gaza Strip”.
Josep Borrell considered that this was a “clear objective” of some members of the Israeli government, whom he accuses of “trying to make the creation of a future Palestinian state impossible”.
During his visit to Egypt, he went to the Rafah border crossing in the Egyptian Sinai, where he acknowledged the EU’s impotence in the face of the blockage of humanitarian aid in the Palestinian enclave.
In the Gaza Strip, a UN convoy, identified as such, was held at gunpoint by the Israeli army for several hours, according to a spokesperson for Antonio Guterres.
“The UN vehicles were surrounded by Israeli forces and shots were fired,” said Stéphane Dujarric.
This is not the first time that UN vehicles have been targeted. In August, a World Food Programme vehicle was hit several times at an Israeli army checkpoint.
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