The French umbrella Jewish organisation, CRIF, is to stage a demonstration in Paris Tuesday night in support of Israel “to differentiate between the Israeli government acting in self-defence of its people and Hamas launching rockets at them without provocation in the preceding days”.
“Germany is ready to help and support and we will do our best in the interests of our friends in Israel,” German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle declared Tuesday in a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem.
European Union Foreign Ministers on Monday urged a cessation of hostilities in the Gaza crisis and condemned rocket attacks on Israel from the Gaza Strip ''which must cease immediately'', while calling on Israel to react ''proportionately'' to the attacks.
“It cannot be argued that Gaza is occupied. Israel left Gaza willingly, yet they target our children as they are leaving for school,” Israeli President Shimon Peres told French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius who paid a one-day-visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories on Sunday.
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said ''we have to find a way to prevent the kind of violent rocket attacks that we've seen and also to bring some security and peace to the people of that region,'' in a statement made upon her arrival at a meeting of the 27 EU Foreign Ministers Monday in Brussels.
Dozens of rockets hit South during Hesham Kandil's visit, in which he denounces Israeli strikes in public appearance with Haniyeh; Palestinian source: Visit the beginning of process to explore possibility of truce.
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton gave her backing to a new agreement of Syrian opposition parties Tuesday, a day after the broad-based coalition also drew support from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
Foreign minister says public should trust decision makers with Tehran threat, accuses Abbas of trying to save himself with the Palestinian UN bid, asserts IDF attacks on Gaza are the only answer to rockets.
