European Union officials have drawn up plans to impose levies on American imports, but questions abound about whether they would go through with them.

Foreign ministers from the EU's 27-member nations are meeting in Brussels in the wake of a new aid deal for Gaza, largely forged by the bloc's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas and Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar.

Today, the UN’s former point person in Gaza questions the details of the EU’s aid deal with Israel, and our energy correspondent hears concerns that Brussels’ ban on Russian gas could brach EU law. An EU-Israel deal to increase aid shipments into Gaza risks being yet another false dawn for Brussels’ efforts to hold Israel to account,

Famine looms in Gaza and strikes kill at least 30 Palestinians, but EU states remain divided over how to tackle Israel.