BRUSSELS - A group of 100 political leaders, humanitarians, artists and scholars has called on the EU to do more to uphold international law in Gaza and make efforts to bring peace to Palestine and Israel.
Ahead of a foreign ministers meeting in Brussels this weekend, the Call4Peace initiative sent the EU an open letter in which it denounced its inaction.
“We deeply regret the lack of leadership from Europe and are appalled by the weak reactions from the international community to the extreme violence in Gaza and Israel,” the group said in the letter.
“We denounce the horrors perpetrated by Hamas on Israel on October 7th, which ensued with hostages still captive to this day, as well as the disproportionate military action by Israeli forces, which has resulted in mass destruction in Gaza and an unprecedented rate of civilian killing among Palestinians. The European Union cannot wait to act.’’
Signatories include former Irish President Mary Robinson, Swedish politician Margot Wallstrom, American political activist Jody Williams, writer Jonathan Littell and Nepalese-French spiritual leader Matthieu Ricard.
