Gerapetritis: Greece calls for humanitarian pause to bring in aid

Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis said Greece supports the idea of a humanitarian pause in the Middle East to allow for the creation of humanitarian corridors for aid to flow in and injured Palestinians to leave Gaza.

"In order to implement this plan you need agreement with the Israelis…you need to set up infrastructures for which we need a humanitarian pause," he said on Monday evening during a conversation hosted by the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) in Brussels. A humanitarian summit is also needed to discuss the day after the war. 

It is important "to differentiate Hamas from the Palestinian people" and consider the long-standing issues, such as the non-implementation of he UN Security Council resolutions, he added.

Gerapetritis said Greece can be a "reliable interlocutor" of both Israel and Arab countries, having maintained a ...