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With the EU’s big 2024 election year fast approaching, there is much important domestic policy business for the bloc to attend to. However, foreign policy ultimately topped the agenda at the European summit of 27 presidents and prime ministers in Brussels on Thursday and Friday, in what may be a prelude of troubled months to come, internationally.
Thursday's summit is overshadowed by Hamas's war with Israel and a failure to project a united front.
European Council President Charles Michel says the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza is of grave concern and the leaders are keen to facilitate access to food, water, medical care, fuel and shelter.
The president’s visit comes as the death toll from Israeli air raids in Gaza has risen above 5,000.
Al Jazeera talks to Alain Gresh, a French author and expert of the Israel-Palestine conflict, as war flares again.