BRUSSELS — Europe’s top diplomats are assessing a new deal with Israel to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, according to Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s foreign policy chief.

Israel's continued military operations and blockade have left the entire population of 2.3 million people in Gaza facing acute food insecurity, with nearly half a million at risk

Today, the UN’s former point person in Gaza questions the details of the EU’s aid deal with Israel, and our energy correspondent hears concerns that Brussels’ ban on Russian gas could brach EU law. An EU-Israel deal to increase aid shipments into Gaza risks being yet another false dawn for Brussels’ efforts to hold Israel to account,