EU urges US to reconsider ban on Palestinian officials attending UN assembly

European Union foreign ministers have urged the United States to reconsider its decision not to allow Palestinian officials to take part in the U.N. General Assembly in New York, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Saturday.

Speaking after a meeting of EU foreign ministers in the capital Copenhagen, Denmark’s foreign minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, said the Zionist entity is “undermining a two-state solution” through its actions in Gaza.

Countries, including Ireland, Spain, Sweden and the Netherlands, have called for the suspension of an EU free trade pact with the Zionist entity. But other countries such as Germany, Hungary and the Czech Republic, have rejected such steps.

“If the EU does not act as a collective now and take sanctions against Israel, whenever will it? What more could it possibly take? Children are starving,” said Irish Foreign Minister Simon Harris.