The Belgian prime minister on Saturday revealed that he had a serious conversation with Israel’s president following the resumption of war in Gaza and revealed to him there could be no more murdering of civilians. A week-old temporary truce between Israel and Hamas collapsed on Friday after mediators were not having the capacity to extend the pause.
Israel and Hamas have traded blame over the collapse. “I’ve put forward my worries about the fact that violence has begun one more time and I’ve one more time repeated what I uttered at the Rafah gate: no more civilian murders,” Belgium’s Alexander De Croo told reporters at the COP28 U.N. climate summit in Dubai. Israel’s foreign ministry summoned the Belgian and Spanish ambassadors over remarks made by their prime ministers previous week at the Egyptian ruled Rafah border crossing into Gaza.
De Croo said at the moment that Israel must show humbleness to international humanitarian law, that the destruction of Gaza was unacceptable and the murdering of civilians had to put to halt. An Israeli official revealed on Friday that the military abides by international law and that its sought to bring down the loss of civilian lives. On Saturday, De Croo said Israel has “the right to remove the terrorist threat coming and rising from Gaza” but that everything should be done to ensure that no more civilians were losing their precious lives.