The EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has spoken to Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi about the “ongoing catastrophe” in Gaza as well as the deteriorating situation for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, Al Jazeera reports.

In a post on social media, Borrell said he and the minister were gravely concerned that “full humanitarian access is still being denied” to the people of Gaza amid an Israeli border blockade of the Palestinian enclave.

Despite a binding — though unenforced — order by the International Court of Justice, Borrell said the fighting has not ended in Gaza, Israeli captives have not been released and a ceasefire proposal announced by US President Joe Biden has not been implemented.

Safadi said he spoke to Borrell about the urgency of the EU taking “real action to stop Israel’s war crime against the Palestinian people”.

“A radical, racist Israel Govt shouldn’t be given impunity. It must face sanctions & be held to account,” he wrote on social media.