European Union foreign policy chief said that the way Israel is carrying out its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip is “seeding hate for generations”.

Josep Borrell spoke ahead of separate talks EU ministers are holding with Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz and the Palestinian Authority’s top diplomat, Riyad al-Maliki.

“We have in mind what Hamas is, what Hamas has done, and certainly we reject and we condemn. But the peace and stability cannot be built only by military means, and not in this particular way of using military means”, - said Borell.

Borrell has been among the Western officials who have criticized the number of civilian casualties in Gaza. The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says at least 25,105 Palestinians have been killed, many of them women and kids.

“The humanitarian situation could not be worse. There are no words to explain how the situation is, with hundreds of thousands without anything, without shelter, without food, without medicine and under the bombs. And every day, there is a high toll of civilian people being killed”, - said Borrell.