内容摘要：BRUSSELS (AP) — Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp said Wednesday that the Netherlands is “drawing a line in the sand” over Israel’s actions in Gaza and is insisting on a review of a European Union pact governing trade ties with the country.

BRUSSELS (AP) — Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp said Wednesday that the Netherlands is “drawing a line in the sand” over Israel’s actions in Gaza and is insisting on a review of a European Union pact governing trade ties with the country.

“We knew that they are just kids, but we could see they could handle themselves,” said Zavadska’s mother, Oksana.Alyona Zavadska, 16, cries near the coffin of her boyfriend Danylo Khudia, 17, killed in a Russian strike along with his parents, Viktoria and Oleh Khudia on April 24, during a farewell ceremony at the crematorium in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Monday, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

Alyona Zavadska, 16, cries near the coffin of her boyfriend Danylo Khudia, 17, killed in a Russian strike along with his parents, Viktoria and Oleh Khudia on April 24, during a farewell ceremony at the crematorium in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Monday, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)roiled around them, Khudia told Zavadska he felt calm and peaceful around her. He called her “my baby girl.” She called him “my boy.”A close friend of Khudia’s, Danylo Bondarchuck, recalled how his eyes shone the first time he mentioned Alyona. “I have the most beautiful girlfriend,” he said.

The couple were inseparable. Zavadska cheered Khudia in his basketball games and encouraged him as he pursued his driver’s license. She helped him study for exams and consoled him when he mentioned being cheated in a money-making scam.When Zavadska expressed interest in tattoo art, Khudia agreed to be her guinea pig. She tattooed him with an alien, a scorpion, a design of the moon.

Zavadska opened up, too. She told Khudia she had an eating disorder. He helped her overcome it.

“She didn’t believe she was beautiful,” her mother said. “He made her believe she is.”“The chances for a new ceasefire have become very, very limited,” Veldkamp said. “In view of the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip and action of the Israeli authorities, which go against international humanitarian law, I believe that this signal has to be given.”

Ties between the EU and Israel — which are major trading partners — are governed by a so-called. It stipulates that their ties “shall be based on respect for human rights and democratic principles.”

The Dutch government intends to block the agreement pending an EU review into whether the Israeli government is complying with the pact, which entered force in 2000.Israel’s offensive has killed more than 52,000 people in Gaza, many of them women and children, according to Palestinian health officials. The officials do not distinguish between combatants and civilians in their count.