The catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza requires urgent action. In the face of recent developments, the EU must help avert further loss of civilian life.
The ETUC calls on the EU to increase, speed up and ensure full delivery of funding and to redouble all efforts to ensure that lifesaving humanitarian aid, on the scale that is needed, is safely and urgently delivered.
The EU should encourage governments who have suspended aid to immediately restore and increase humanitarian funding.
The completely insufficient level of humanitarian aid reaching those in desperate need in Gaza is creating extreme hunger and deprivation and adding to the deaths of civilians in particular women and children, with grave consequences.
We underscore that international law is unambiguous that measures must be taken to guarantee that humanitarian assistance is provided to civilians in Gaza along with protecting civilians' safety.
Innocent Palestinians must not be made pay the price for the crimes of Hamas.
We call again for an immediate ceasefire, the release of all hostages and dialogue for peace on the basis of a two state solution.
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