Israel’s international minister once more accused EU international coverage chief Josep Borrell of “anti-Semitism” Saturday (14 September) after the highest diplomat expressed outrage on the killing of UN employees in an Israeli strike in Gaza.
“Josep Borrell is an anti-Semite and Israel-hater who persistently tries to go resolutions and sanctions in opposition to Israel within the EU, solely to be blocked by most member states,” International Minister Israel Katz stated in a press release.
On Thursday, Borrell stated he was “outraged” by the killing of six staff from the UN Palestinian refugee company (UNRWA) in an Israeli air strike on a school-turned-shelter within the Nuseirat space of central Gaza the day earlier than.
The assault flattened a part of the UN-run Al-Jawni College on Wednesday, leaving solely a pile of charred rebar and concrete.
Gaza’s civil defence company and the United Nations stated a minimum of 18 individuals, amongst them girls and youngsters, have been killed within the strike, whereas the Israeli navy stated it had focused Hamas militants.
The navy stated it had killed 9 militants, together with three who have been additionally UNRWA staff.
UNRWA stated six of its employees have been killed in two Israeli strikes on the college.
It was the deadliest single incident for the company in additional than 11 months of warfare and drew worldwide condemnation.
Katz has repeatedly levelled accusations of “anti-Semitism” in opposition to the European Union international coverage chief, who has persistently spoken out in opposition to perceived Israeli abuses in Gaza and the West Financial institution.
Borrell stated the Nuseirat strike confirmed a “disregard of the essential ideas” of worldwide humanitarian legislation.
On Saturday, Katz retorted: “There’s a distinction between professional criticism… and the anti-Semitic, hate-filled marketing campaign Borrell is main in opposition to Israel — harking back to historical past’s worst anti-Semites.”
UNRWA has stated a minimum of 220 members of the company’s employees have been killed within the Israel-Hamas warfare in Gaza, which was triggered by Hamas’s unprecedented assault on southern Israel on 7 October.
On Friday, UNRWA introduced one in every of its staff was killed throughout an Israeli raid within the occupied West Financial institution, the primary such loss of life within the territory in additional than a decade.
UNRWA has greater than 30,000 staff within the Palestinian territories and elsewhere.
It has been in disaster since Israel accused a dozen of its staff of being concerned within the October 7 assault.
The UN instantly fired the implicated employees members, and a probe discovered some “neutrality associated points” however confused Israel had not supplied proof for its primary allegations.
