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EU backs Israel on 'human shields' in Gaza

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  EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)

By ANDREW RETTMAN 

BRUSSELS, 13. NOV, 22:18

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The EU has backed Israel in saying that its unprecedented killing of civilians in Gaza is partly due to terrorists' use of "human shields", amid intense debate on the morality of the war.

"The EU condemns the use of hospitals and civilians as human shields by Hamas," EU foreign ministers said in a statement in Brussels on Monday (12 November).