Europe’s change of tone on Gaza lacks action for now:

Mouin Rabbani, a non-resident fellow at the Qatar-based Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies, says silence and inaction regarding what is going on in Gaza equate to “complicity”.

He noted that the UK recently suspended talks on a free trade agreement with Israel, and “presented this as a hugely significant sanction”. However, the UK continues to deliver weapons to “Israel’s genocidal apartheid regime” and flies intelligence flights over Gaza that “directly contribute to the genocide”,

The EU is slated to review its preferential trade agreement with Israel, which entered into force in 2000.

“What the EU is saying is that 25 years on, they still don’t have a clue whether Israel is violating Palestinian human rights and, therefore, they need to investigate the matter,” Rabbani told Al Jazeera

He highlighted “a change of tone” in Europe over Gaza because of growing public pressure on political leadership, amid the “explicitly genocidal statements” that keep coming out from Israel.