European MPs accuse EU countries of complicity in the war of extermination in Gaza.

Several members of the European Parliament have accused member states of complicity in Israel's genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and called for severing all ties with Tel Aviv.

This came during a session of the European Parliament in the French city of Strasbourg on Wednesday, in which Israel's practices in Gaza were described for the first time as "genocide."

The session, titled "Stop the Genocide in Gaza: Time for European Sanctions," was initiated by the 46-member European Left group and attended by EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaya Kallas.

Several MPs, including the head of the Left Bloc, French MP Manon Aubry, delivered speeches at the session.

Aubrey Callas attacked, saying, "Genocide, genocide, genocide. I say this again because despite 18 months of massacres in Gaza, you deliberately refuse to use this term."

She stressed the need for the European Parliament to take action to protect civilians in Gaza, impose sanctions on Israel, and end EU member states' complicity with Tel Aviv.

Aubry noted that Rima Hassan, a French MP of Palestinian origin and member of the left-wing group, was aboard the Madeleine, a ship bound for Gaza to provide humanitarian aid.

She continued: "When Israel stopped her in international waters and detained her, there was no call from the European Union for her release."

Aubrey said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was able to enter a European Union country (Hungary), despite an arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court.

She criticized the European Union's double standards, saying, "The EU imposed 17 packages of sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, but it has not taken any similar action against Israel."

She added that the meeting of European Union foreign ministers scheduled for June 23 may witness, for the first time, discussion of the possibility of imposing sanctions on Israel.

She stressed that suspending the EU-Israel partnership agreement was "a demand of tens of thousands of protesters in the streets of Europe."

On May 20, the European Union, at the suggestion of the Netherlands, decided to review the Association Agreement with Israel, which grants Tel Aviv trade privileges.

Kallas is scheduled to announce the results of this review at a meeting of European foreign ministers on June 23.

With full American support, Israel has been committing genocidal crimes in Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving more than 185,000 Palestinians dead or wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands displaced.