Israel has agreed for EU foreign relations chief Catherine Ashton to visit Gaza next week in a mission criticised by a former Israeli diplomat.
"I think that both a visit and a meeting [with Palestinian militant group Hamas] are unnecessary and unhelpful," Israel's former ambassador to the EU, Oded Eran, told EUobserver from Tel Aviv on Monday (8 March).
"Assuming that Proximity Talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority start in the next few days, why would the EU want t...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.