(24 Mar 2025)
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Ramallah, West Bank – 24 March 2025
1. Mohammad Mustafa, Palestinian Prime Minister and Kaja Kallas, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy walking to press conference platform
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohammad Mustafa, Palestinian Prime Minister:
"We’re meeting in a, at a very critical juncture for Palestine as the world witness the ongoing tragedy in Gaza and the breakdown of the ceasefire by Israel. We cannot remain silent about the grave violations of international law and rights of the Palestinian people."
3. Cutaway of cameramen
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohammad Mustafa, Palestinian Prime Minister:
"Today, we also discussed with the High Representative, the Israeli attempts to undermine our government’s ability to function. One of the most harmful actions Israel has taken is the continued withholding of Palestinian tax revenues. This illegal measure has dire consequences for the Palestinian government’s ability to provide basic services to its people, including the delivery of health care services, education and social protection."
5. Wide of Mustafa and Kallas during press conference
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Kaja Kallas, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy:
"The EU strongly opposes the resumption of war. It is causing an appalling and unacceptable loss of life in Gaza. My message(s) during my visit here are very clear. Hamas must release all hostages. Israel must fully reinstate humanitarian aid to Gaza and negotiations must resume. Prime Minister (Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa) you can count on the EU’s support to return to the ceasefire. Our EUBAM Rafah border crossing mission (European Union Border Assistance Mission to Rafah) is ready to resume its monitoring activity at the Rafah crossing point."
7. Wide of Mustafa and Kallas during press conference
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Kaja Kallas, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy:
"We support the return to the ceasefire. And and we really deplore the loss of life, the appalling loss of life in Gaza. I think we can all think what more can we do? I mean, today we also were discussing maybe that our Rafah mission could also be used in order to help the humanitarian aid to reach the people in need. We are trying to think along the lines what more can we do? But right now it’s for the mediators to sit down with the parties, to really to return to the ceasefire, to stop the killing."
9. Mustafa and Kallas shaking hands
10. Mustafa and Kallas leaving press conference
11. Palestinian flags
12. Wide of Palestinian Prime Minister’s office in the West Bank city of Ramallah
STORYLINE:
European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Monday that the EU "strongly opposes the resumption of war" which is "causing an appalling and unacceptable loss of life in Gaza," after Israel resumed the war in the Gaza Strip last week with a surprise wave of airstrikes.
"My message(s) during my visit here are very clear. Hamas must release all hostages. Israel must fully reinstate humanitarian aid to Gaza and negotiations must resume" Kallas said at a press conference with Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
More than 50,000 Palestinians have now been killed in the war, the Health Ministry said earlier Sunday.
The ceasefire that took hold in January paused more than a year of fighting ignited by Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack into Israel, in which militants killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took 251 hostage.
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