Belgian Foreign Minister Haja Rachbib condemned Israel’s bombing of the Enabel Development Agency in the Gaza Strip.
The building bombings came after Norway, Spain, Ireland and Belgium announced they would not stop funding UNRWA. [Getty]
Belgian Foreign Minister Haja Rabib on Friday summoned the Israeli ambassador over Israel’s bombing of the Enabel Belgian Development Agency building in the Gaza Strip.
“I have just summoned the Israeli ambassador to express my strong condemnation of the destruction of Enabel’s office in the Gaza Strip. Attacks on civilian infrastructure violate the principles of international humanitarian law,” Rabib wrote on X. The parties concerned must comply with this.”
Images shared online showed buildings reduced to rubble after Thursday’s Israeli bombing.
Enerbel CEO Jan van Vetter announced the destruction, saying the X building was “completely destroyed.”
“An attack on a civilian building is completely unacceptable. We are all shocked by Enabel. As a government agency acting in the public interest within the framework of international humanitarian law, we cannot tolerate this.” Stated.
Enabel works to improve education around Palestine, including the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza.
The building bombing came after Norway, Spain, Ireland and Belgium resisted pressure to cut funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
A number of countries, including the United States, Britain, Switzerland and Germany, have criticized the organization, one of the enclave’s biggest aid providers, following Israeli claims that some of its staff have ties to Hamas. We stopped funding the organization. He led the attack on Israel on October 7th.
UNRWA has 13,000 staff in Gaza and runs schools, health facilities and women’s centres. It is the second-largest employer in the besieged enclave.
Israel has targeted civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war on October 7, destroying more than 70 percent of the enclave’s housing units, according to the United Nations.
According to an analysis of satellite data obtained by the station, BBCbetween 144,000 and 175,000 buildings were damaged or destroyed across the Gaza Strip.