The European Union and Israel have reached an agreement to allow more aid to Gaza, with a substantial increase of daily supplies to happen in the coming days, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Several EU countries are pushing Brussels to move forward with concrete actions against Israel over the war in Gaza for failing to improve the dire humanitarian situation, diplomats said Thursday.But several diplomats said that a group of countries had demanded the EU move ahead with a list of options to punish Israel over Gaza to keep up pressure.

An internal EU report on the situation in Gaza said there had been no improvement on the ground. “Despite recent agreement with Israel to increase aid delivery to Gaza there is still no tangible increase, with important stocks of relief items stuck and piling up at the borders,” it said.

LONDON (AP) — Britain threatened Tuesday to take further action against Israel if it does not agree to end the war in Gaza, a day after two dozen mostly European countries condemned Israel’s restrictions on aid shipments into the territory and the killings of hundreds of Palestinians trying to reach food.

Measures include increasing the number of daily trucks entering Gaza and opening additional crossings into the north and south of the Strip.The post EU foreign-policy chief says agreement reached with

The European Union's diplomatic service said on Friday there were indications that Israel had breached its human rights obligations under the terms of a pact governing its ties with the bloc, according to a document seen by Reuters.

Europe's top diplomats are assessing a new deal with Israel to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, according to Kaja Kallas, the European Union's foreign policy chief.