GAZA CITY — Israel drew international condemnation over its plans for an expanded Gaza offensive, as the country’s far-right finance minister called yesterday for the Palestinian territory to be “destroyed”.
Israel’s military had called up tens of thousands of reservists for its planned expanded offensive in the Gaza Strip, which an official said would entail the “conquest” of the Palestinian territory.
European Union top diplomat Kaja Kallas yesterday told her Israeli counterpart in a call that the situation was “untenable”, urging the resumption of the flow of aid to Gaza, where famine looms