EU to review trade relations with Israel over ‘untenable’ situation in Gaza, says top diplomat – as it happened

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Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of Unrwa, the UN agency that supports Palestinian refugees, has been speaking to Euronews.

He said US President Donald Trump has the unique power to force Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to change the situation" in Gaza.

I do believe that President Donald Trump has the necessary influence to change the situation in Gaza and make sure that the siege be lifted and that the population get access to the assistance it deserves.

It's an outrage that we are confronted by a situation of starvation when it comes to Gaza. It's a completely fabricated one. We are in a situation where hunger and food are being weaponised for political and military purposes...

What is needed in Gaza is a massive, unhindered, uninterrupted assistance of supply to make sure that we are reversing the trend of the spreading hunger.