after the Israeli security cabinet approves the agreement, the government must approve it in turn

The European Union is ready to reestablish its assistance mission at the Rafah border crossing, between Gaza and Egypt, after the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, the head said of European diplomacy, Kaja Kallas. “We are ready to do it”she declared, asked about this after a meeting with the Palestinian Prime Minister, Mohammad Mustafa, in Brussels. The diplomat clarified that the European Union needed an agreement from the Palestinian, Israeli and Egyptian parties before it could “move forward”.

This monitoring mission would include up to ten European personnel, according to officials. The European Union set up a civilian mission in 2005 to help monitor the crossing, but it was suspended two years later when Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip.

Kaja Kallas called the agreement a truce “positive progress”more “It is still too early to say whether the war is truly over and we know there are risks at every step.”