BEIJING: EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Saturday that a plan byIsrael to evacuate more than one million people out of northern Gaza in asingle day was “utterly impossible to implement”.
Israel warned residents in the area to evacuate before an expected groundoffensive against Hamas in retaliation for the deadliest attack in Israel’shistory.
“I am saying that, representing the official position of the EuropeanUnion,… (the evacuation plan) is utterly, utterly impossible to implement,”Borrell told a press conference in Beijing on the final day of a three-daydiplomatic visit to China.
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“To imagine that you could move one million people in 24 hours in asituation like Gaza can only be a humanitarian crisis,” he added. -APP/AFP