The situation is dramatic for the Palestinian civilian population. Prime Minister Bart de Wever is well aware of this. Tuesday, at a press conference organized in The Hague, he said that “Gaza images are unbearable to watch”.
Sammy Mahdi, President of the CD&V, said on Wednesday to wait for the Prime Minister to quickly put Gaza’s question at the Council of Ministers. Same story with Conner Rousseau, the boss of Vooruit. The two presidents used the term “genocide” To qualify events in the Gaza Strip.
The deafening silence of the Belgian government about Gaza
-“Do not import the conflict in Belgium”
Has the N-VA, under the impulse of Bart de Wever, a strong man of the party, changed his positioning by showing more empathy than before towards the Palestinians in the war which oppose them to the Israelis? In any case, Valerie Van Peel welcomes the initiative of Emmanuel Macron who pleads for the recognition of a Palestinian State under certain conditions. For the president of the N-VA, a solution to two states is desirable, provided that Hamas is dismantled and the Israeli hostages, released. But the Macron plan is not clear on all points. It could be discussed, in the coming months, at a conference at the United Nations in New York, under the co -chairmanship of Saudi Arabia and France. According to the French president, the recognition of certain Arab countries by Israel is part of the agreement.
The change in tone of the nationalist, which has become a Prime Minister in the meantime, may not be so surprising that it is imagined. In November 2023, Bart de Wever spoke of the Hebrew state like “On the light side “. At the time, his empathy towards Israel was tried “understandable“In view of the presence of a strong Jewish community in his city of Antwerp. But, at that time, already, Bart de Wever qualified as”enormous error“The violence of the Israeli response to the massacres of October 7, as evidenced by a video dating from November 2023 and published by the spokesperson for the N-VA on social networks. The head of federal government said that if he had to choose between Hamas and Israel, he would always store himself on the side of Israel, but that the images of the civilian victims were” terrible “.These two states must be created, otherwise the problem will never be resolved “. And then, since then, the situation has worsened on the ground.
Humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip is on the verge of collapse
