The European Union is studying whether it could play a role in monitoring the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt after Israel’s bombardment ends, officials said according to AFP.

“We received demarches from different parties including Israel whether we could study the possibility to reopen it (the EU mission),” a high-ranking EU official said.

The official said EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell would likely get a green light from European ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday to draw up options for a potential redeployment of an EU mission.

“Obviously this would not be in the current circumstances, not in war circumstances. We are talking about the future,” the official said.

A European diplomat cautioned that the EU — which has struggled to come to a unified position on the Gaza bombardment — was still at the “very beginning of the possible process” towards launching the mission.

The Rafah border crossing is currently closed by Israel as it carries out an assault on the Gazan city.