The European Union on Sunday slammed Israel
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for plunging Gaza into a humanitarian crisis:
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' ST PETERSBURG, Russia: The European Union accused Israel
yesterday of a disproportionate use of force against Palestinians
in Gaza and of making a humanitarian crisis there worse. It was
the first time the 25-nation bloc had made such a sharp criticism
of the Jewish state in the crisis triggered by the abduction of an
Israeli corporal from a border post by Palestinian Islamic
militants on June 25. “The EU condemns the loss of lives caused by
disproportionate use of force by the Israeli Defence Forces and
the humanitarian crisis it has aggravated,” Finnish Prime Minister
Matti Vanhanen, whose country holds the EU’s rotating presidency,
said in a statement on a visit to St Petersburg. It was released
after 23 Palestinians were killed in the bloodiest day of fighting
since 2004 on Thursday in military operations designed to stop
rockets being fired into Israel. '
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