BRUSSELS (Dispatches) – The European Commission announced on Monday that it will suspend development aid to Palestine after the recent developments in the occupied territories.
EU Commissioner for Neighborhood Oliver Varhelyi said on X that the EU executive body puts on hold its “full development portfolio” of €691 million ($729 million).
“There can be no business as usual,” he added.
Top EU officials, including European Council chief Charles Michel, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and EU top diplomat Josep Borrell, took sides with the Zionist regime in the ongoing Palestinian operation against the occupying regime.
The Gaza-based resistance group Hamas launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood against the regime early Saturday, firing a barrage of rockets. It said the surprise attack was in response to the storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Al-Quds and increased settler violence.
The Zionist regime’s army launched Operation Swords of Iron against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
At least 800 Zionists have been killed and over 2,300 others wounded in the fighting, according to the occupying regime’s health ministry.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said that over 560 Palestinians died and over 2,900 were wounded.
Meanwhile, Arab League foreign ministers will meet Wednesday to discuss the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip following a surprise assault by Hamas on the regime, the regional bloc announced.
The “extraordinary meeting” in Cairo will seek to find “avenues of political action at the Arab and international level,” as the regime keeps pounding targets in Gaza following Saturday’s attack, Arab League deputy chief Hossam Zaki said in a statement.