A “terrible” and “catastrophic” situation, an “intolerable level of suffering”... The European foreign affairs ministers had no shortage of words to describe the situation in Gaza on Monday 13 November, when they arrived at the EU Council. The day before, in a statement by the High Representative of the Union on behalf of the EU, the EU27, concerned by “the deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza”, joined calls for “immediate pauses in hostilities and the establishment of...