EU's Borrell: Israeli plan to destroy Hamas not working

STORY: "There is no words to explain how the situation is, with hundreds of thousands without anything, without shelters, without food, without medicines, and under the bombs. And every day there is a high toll of civilian people being killed," he said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had on Sunday (January 21) reaffirmed a hard line against any Palestinian state as it would pose "an existential danger" to Israel.

Borrell spoke at the monthly gathering of EU foreign ministers, attended this time by counterparts from Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan and the Arab League secretary-general. The talks will focus mainly on the consequences of Hamas' October 7 attack on Israel and Israel's retaliatory offensive in Gaza.

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz and Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki were making separate appearances at the meeting, which was also taking stock of the war in Ukraine.