The EU yesterday confirmed  €458 million in humanitarian aid for Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt. Palestine will receive €124 million to cover the needs of 3.3 million people in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

In a war-torn Middle East, the European Union is stepping up while others step back,” the EU Commissioner for Equality, Preparedness and Crisis Management Hadja Lahbib stated. Now that the EU is temporarily not aligned with the US, as happened during Donald Trump’s first presidency, the bloc has stepped into the role of the largest humanitarian aid donor and therefore, retaining the right of rhetoric on humanitarian and the people whose lives were ravaged by colonial complicity. “International law exists to protect them [the people], and Europe will defend it. We will continue delivering life-saving aid for as long as it is needed.”

The EU, however, did not protect Palestinians in Gaza from Israel’s genocide. It did not protect........

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