“Will Palestinians Evacuate To The Moon?” This Top EU Minister Asked As He Slammed Israel And Its Allies
Josep Borrell also called out western countries’ hypocrisy for lamenting that too many people have been killed in Gaza while continuing to supply Israel with weapons for its attacks.
In a speech that has gone viral, the European Union’s foreign minister slammed the US and Israel’s allies for supplying Israel with weapons to carry out its war on Gaza.
Speaking at a press conference in Brussels, Belgium, alongside Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN Relief and Works Agency in Palestine (UNRWA), Borrell called out western countries’ hypocrisy for lamenting that too many people have been killed in Gaza while continuing to supply Israel with weapons for its attacks.
“How many times have you heard the most prominent leaders and the foreign ministers around the world saying, “Too many people are being killed”?” Borrell said. “Well, if you believe that too many people are being killed, maybe you should provide less arms in order to prevent so many people [from] being killed. Isn’t it logical?”
“Everyone goes to Tel-Aviv, begging, ‘Please, do not do that. Protect civilians. Do not kill so many,'” he continued. “How many is too many? What is the standard?”
He then slammed Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu for not listening to anyone and saying that Israel was going to evacuate 1.4 million Palestinians trapped in Rafah in southern Gaza, where it is intent on invading.
“‘They are going to evacuate.’ Where? To the moon?,” Borrell said
“So, if the international community believes that this is a slaughter, that too many people are being killed, maybe they have to think about the provision of arms,” he added.
In the same speech, Borrell also urged the international community not to halt funding to UNRWA, the main humanitarian agency in Gaza and the only one that has been allowed in to deliver aid since the war began.
Several countries that made up the majority of UNRWA’s funding cut their donations after Israel accused 12 UNRWA workers of being involved with Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack in response to the International Court of Justice finding that Israel was plausibly committing genocide in Gaza.
He pointed out that UNRWA not only provides much needed assistance to the 2.3 million people in Gaza but also to two million people in Jordan, half a million people each in Syria and Lebanon, as well 900,000 people in Palestine’s occupied West Bank.
“If this agency disappears, this will have a devastating effect on 5.6 million people,” he said. “They are stateless, because there is no Palestinian state.”
He said UNRWA should only be dissolved when there is no longer a Palestinian refugee problem.
“If you cancel UNRWA, the refugee problem will still be there, but still worse,” he said. “So, let’s work for a solution which makes [it] possible [for] UNRWA [not to] continue working for the refugees from Palestine, because the problem has been solved through the creation of two states, not by cancelling UNRWA and making the problem bigger.”
