Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide told CNN of the “frustration” felt within NATO that Israel is “going too far” in Gaza after this week's attack on a World Central Kitchen (WCK) convoy that killed seven aid workers.
“Yesterday I was together with most of my Western foreign minister colleagues at the NATO meeting in Brussels and I could really feel that the frustration, even among those who have been most supportive of Israel until now, is that this is really going too far,” he told CNN’s Isa Soares on Friday.
Israel’s internal report into the aid convoy strikes that was published Friday, “brought home to us how easy it is for the Israeli forces to fire at people they believe to be or think are terrorists on what seems to be not very convincing evidence, to put it mildly," the foreign minister said.
“The only good thing about this tragic situation [is that] it seems that the level of critique and messaging from the entire world, including some of Israel’s closest allies, is now being stepped up, that you cannot continue to behave like this," Barth Eide said.
He went on to call for a ceasefire. "And from there on humanitarian aid and eventually a political solution," the minister said.