The EU ministerial meeting on Monday was intended to discuss the humanitarian crisis engulfing the Gaza Strip and the potential first steps towards a peaceful resolution to the long-term conflict between Israel and Palestine. The bloc’s foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell, who earlier in the day had described the gathering as “exceptional”, said Katz’s intervention during the meeting – where he pitched an artificial island in the Mediterranean Sea near the Gazan coast – was “irrelevant” to the discussions. “I think that the minister could have used his time better to worry about the situation …
