Elaine Loughlin: EU cannot put action against Israel on the long finger 

While Israel unleashed a brutal attack against a people who had already been living in an open air prison, a war of attrition to change minds has been ongoing at EU level

Palestinians gather to receive a hot meal at a food distribution point in the Nuseirat camp for refugees in the central Gaza Strip. Picture: Eyad Baba/AFP/Getty

Israel has crossed every red line.

We have looked on with sickening horror at the attacks on hospitals and refugee tents, the murder of aid workers, the arrest and torture of doctors, the forced displacement of an entire population, and the killing and starvation of innocent children.