"We have to stop the killing of civilians in Gaza," High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Affairs Joseph Borrell said in a statement following his visit to Saudi Arabia, APA reports.
"Nobody was thinking about the drama in the Palestinian territories, but in the West Bank was already a drama. And in Gaza too. And we started thinking about it and looking for a solution, because peace between the Arab states and Israel is good but is not enough.
This has to be done mostly between Israel and Palestine, because only through an agreement, a political agreement - the two-state solution - Israel could be safe, because its security can not only be based on the military capacity, it has been proved.
And now we have to stop the killing of civilians in Gaza. We have to stop this great number of casualties. Hamas has to be eradicated. But Hamas is an idea, it represents an idea, and you cannot kill an idea. The only way of killing an idea – a bad idea - is to propose a better one, to give a horizon to the Palestinian people, to their dignity, to their freedom, to their security, which has to go hand in hand with the security of Israel.
"This is going to be difficult. It has always been difficult. For 30 years, the international community has been preaching the two-state solution without doing a lot, or sometimes nothing in order to make it possible. And today it is more difficult than 30 years ago when the Oslo agreements [have been concluded]. But even if it is difficult, we have to try," " Borrell stressed.
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