The European Union’s outgoing top diplomat Josep Borrell has said he has “no more words” to describe the situation in the Middle East, before chairing his last planned meeting of the bloc’s foreign ministers, AFP reports.
“I exhausted the words to explain what’s happening in the Middle East,” Borrell told reporters, barely concealing his frustration at the EU’s failure to weigh on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during his five-year mandate.
“There are no more words,” he said. “It’s about 44,000 people killed in Gaza, the whole area is being destroyed, and 70 per cent of the people being killed are women or children.”
“The most frequent ages of casualties are children below nine years old,” said the 77-year-old foreign policy chief.
