Borrell maintains that “what is happening” in Lebanon “cannot be separated from what is happening in Gaza”

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September 26 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, has maintained this Wednesday before the UN Security Council that “what is happening” in Lebanon, after the Israeli Army has focused its attention on the northern front where it is facing the Lebanese Shiite party-militia Hezbollah, “cannot be separated from what is happening in Gaza.”

“I’m not going to play the blame game, but I know three things: escalation won’t solve anything because war doesn’t solve anything, what’s happening in southern Lebanon cannot be separated from what’s happening in Gaza (because) one thing influences the other, but at the same time, we have to do everything we can to prevent southern Lebanon from becoming a new Gaza. And it is becoming a new Gaza,” he said.

Borrell regretted that “the famous resolution” to resolve the Israeli-Lebanese conflict was approved more than 20 years ago without being implemented, but he urged the other member countries to “unanimously request the suspension of hostilities along the Blue Line” as well as the application of said resolution. “What else can we do? Let’s at least agree on that and try to have it applied,” he said.

“Now it is up to all of us to do something for a ceasefire on the Blue Line, so that the instinct for life can prevail over the instinct for death, so that the terrible fatalism that we have today in the face of so much horror can be overcome,” he said during his speech at the extraordinary session convened by France, which has proposed a 21-day truce between Israel and Hezbollah.