Amnesty: ‘Indeclination about Gaza due to political chaos is tragic’
“It is deeply tragic how the political chaos and division of the outgoing cabinet LAMS THE decision -making about Gaza.” That is what Amnesty states after the resignation of outgoing foreign minister Caspar Veldkamp on Friday evening.
Veldkamp received measures against Israel for new attacks on Gaza City and plans for settlements on the West Bank not by the Council of Ministers. The NSC member then submitted his resignation. His party members followed, so that nine ministers have now been released in the already outsourcing cabinet. Only VVD and BBB are still in the Schoof cabinet.
“It is embarrassing how little our cabinet wants to do to put the genocide in Gaza. The Netherlands is again waiting for what the EU is planning, while it has a duty to take steps as a country,” says Amnesty. He emphasizes that the situation in the Gaza Strip with “Systematic starving by Israel and the already more than 62,000 Palestinian dead” has been lasting 22 months. “Cabinet members have to put their differences aside to ensure that Israel is putting an end to the genocide and allows humanitarian aid.”