EU official compares Gaza destruction to WWII Germany

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Now 1.3 million Palestinians trapped in overcrowded and unprotected shelters; ‘not a place for humans’, UNRWA says.

The situation in Gaza is “catastrophic, apocalyptic” with destruction proportionally “even greater” than Germany experienced in World War II, the EU’s top diplomat says.

While denouncing Hamas’s attack, Josep Borrell made clear he saw Israel’s military operation as disproportionate in terms of civilian deaths and damage to civilian property and infrastructure.

“The human suffering constitutes an unprecedented challenge to the international community,” Borrell said.

“Civilian casualties are between 60 and 70 percent of the overall deaths” and “85 percent of the population is internally displaced”.

“The destruction of buildings in Gaza … is more or less or even greater than the destruction suffered by the German cities during the Second World War,” taken proportionally, Borrell said.