{"id":449850,"date":"2026-04-09T13:05:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/04\/09\/leuropa-condanna-netanyahu-attacchi-in-libano-ingiustificati\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T14:06:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:06:39","slug":"europe-condemns-netanyahu-attacks-in-lebanon-are-unjustified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/04\/09\/europe-condemns-netanyahu-attacks-in-lebanon-are-unjustified\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe condemns Netanyahu: &#8220;Attacks in Lebanon are unjustified&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels \u2013 The European Union and its member states stand united against Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has managed to alienate the Old Continent and isolate himself even further following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/04\/08\/europe-and-canada-to-israel-the-us-iran-ceasefire-must-be-respected-by-all-including-in-lebanon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attacks launched in Lebanon following the ceasefire<\/a> reached between the United States and Iran, which was immediately called into question by a campaign against Hezbollah that&nbsp;traditional partners no longer support. At this moment, the ceasefire and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz are of greater importance. Italy was among the first to make this clear, with a statement condemning Netanyahu\u2019s actions: \u201cHezbollah\u2019s decision to drag the nation into this conflict was irresponsible, but<strong> the ongoing Israeli attacks in Lebanon<\/strong>, which have already caused too many deaths and an unacceptable number of displaced persons, <strong>must cease immediately.<\/strong>\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Meloni government\u2019s stance has been reiterated by the Foreign Minister, <strong>Antonio Tajani<\/strong>: \u201cWe condemn the bombing of the Lebanese civilian population,\u201d said the Foreign Minister, who described Israel\u2019s air strikes as <strong>\u201cunjustifiable and unacceptable.\u201d<\/strong> French President <strong>Emmanuel Macron<\/strong> struck a similar tone: &#8220;We condemn the air strikes in the strongest possible terms,&#8221; he said, expressing concern at the scale of the military operations. The attacks \u201cpose a direct threat to the sustainability of the ceasefire reached.\u201d These words sound like a direct accusation against the Tel Aviv government, which Spanish Prime Minister <strong> Pedro Sanchez <\/strong> has also lambasted: \u201cThe European Union must suspend its association agreement with Israel\u201d and take action against Netanyahu himself,  if necessary, as \u201cthere must be no impunity in the face of these criminal acts.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The last to react, chronologically, is the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, <strong>Kaja Kallas<\/strong>, further evidence of the European Commission\u2019s hesitation&nbsp;to take a stand against Israel. Kallas\u2019s line mirrors that of Italy: \u201cHezbollah has dragged Lebanon into war,\u201d the High Representative states, \u201cbut <strong>Israel\u2019s right to self-defense does not justify this destruction.<\/strong>\u201d So, to be clear, she points out that, according to the EU executive, it is \u201cdifficult to argue that such heavily repressive actions fall within the scope of legitimate self-defense.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Five Star Movement delegation issues accusations in Parliament: &#8220;The massacre carried out by the Israeli army in Lebanon stems from <strong>a clear attempt to sabotage the tentative glimmers of peace<\/strong> that had emerged in the Middle East and the Gulf following the ceasefire between Iran and the United States,&#8221; the Five Star Movement members said in a press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to High Representative Kallas, &#8220;Israel\u2019s right to defend itself does not justify inflicting such widespread destruction&#8221; and it is &#8220;difficult to argue that such heavily repressive actions constitute legitimate self-defense&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":429901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25707],"tags":[26327,25890,27569,26237,30253,26002,33712,33394],"class_list":["post-449850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-politics","tag-iran-in-2","tag-libano-en","tag-m5s-europe-and","tag-meloni-and","tag-netanyahu","tag-ue"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449851,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449850\/revisions\/449851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}