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\u201cLet\u2019s not forget that 60,000 innocent people have been killed, that Gaza is destroyed,\u201d a European government official said.\u00a0| Omar Al-Qattaa\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\nJustice and accountability<\/p>\n
As Trump and Netanyahu swapped mutual congratulations in Israel on Monday, some officials in Brussels watched their display with a sense of foreboding. At one point, Trump even suggested Netanyahu should be pardoned in relation to the corruption charges he faces at home \u2014 a move that contributed to the sense Trump wants to look forward, not back.<\/p>\n
The official quoted above stressed that Israel must be held accountable for what some have called the \u201cgenocide\u201d in Gaza. \u201cWhat is very important in a peace process is that justice is done and accountability is done. Let\u2019s not forget that 60,000 innocent people have been killed, that Gaza is destroyed,\u201d they said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At the height of the humanitarian crisis, the German government banned the export of any weapons to Israel that could be used in Gaza. Now, ministers in Berlin are preparing to review those measures to see whether the conditions allow restrictions to be lifted.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s not forget that 60,000 innocent people have been killed, that Gaza is destroyed,\u201d a European government official said.\u00a0| Omar Al-Qattaa\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n
In Paris, where the government is in its own spiral of disarray, there is still a desire to maintain some negotiating power. \u201cWe need to keep [the threat of sanctions] and condition their removal. Everything that has been obtained from Netanyahu has been done under duress. It\u2019s not the moment to decrease pressure,\u201d said a former French official. It\u2019s \u201ctoo premature.\u201d<\/p>\n
One member of parliament from Britain\u2019s ruling Labour Party agreed it was too soon to consider lifting sanctions. \u201cI have a strong sense that pressure on Israel will still be needed,\u201d the MP said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Europe\u2019s role\u00a0<\/p>\n
European officials are pressing for a major role in the process that follows, demanding a seat on Trump\u2019s proposed \u201cboard of peace\u201d that would oversee the administration of Gaza. Trump was vague on Monday about its composition, referring questions to his envoy Steve Witkoff, who said he had many applicants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justice and accountability As Trump and Netanyahu swapped mutual congratulations in Israel on Monday, some officials in Brussels…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[52363,49,6557,54,99,3472,170,1155,85,4426,46,61,52364,52365,43,48,4321,52366,1299,3803],"class_list":{"0":"post-73646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-aid-and-development","9":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","10":"tag-diplomacy","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-emmanuel-macron","13":"tag-exports","14":"tag-germany","15":"tag-human-rights","16":"tag-il","17":"tag-infrastructure","18":"tag-israel","19":"tag-israel-hamas-war","20":"tag-multilateral-agreements","21":"tag-national-recovery-plans","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-palestine","24":"tag-sanctions","25":"tag-trade-agreements","26":"tag-united-kingdom","27":"tag-weapons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}