Israel severs contact with EU’s Kallas over reported apartheid remarks

The Israeli foreign minister has lamented the “blatant unfairness” exhibited by the top EU diplomat

West Jerusalem will cut “all contact” with EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas over her reported comparison of the country to apartheid-era South Africa, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar has announced.

Relations between the bloc and Israel’s far-right government have steadily deteriorated in the past few years over the war in Gaza, accelerating illegal settlement building, and the invasion of Lebanon. The EU has for years been accused of double standards over its failure to prosecute Israel for possible genocide, while imposing 21 rounds of…

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