European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Monday that the way Israel is carrying out its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip is “seeding hate for generations.”

Borrell spoke ahead of separate talks EU ministers were to hold Monday with Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz and the Palestinian Authority’s top diplomat, Riyad al-Maliki.

Borrell has been among the Western officials who have criticized the number of civilian casualties in Gaza.

“The humanitarian situation could not be worse,” Borrell said. “There [are] no words to explain how the situation is, with hundreds of thousands without anything, without shelter, without food, without medicine and under the bombs. And every day, there is a high toll of civilian people being killed.”

Some world leaders, but not U.S. President Joe Biden, have called for an immediate cease-fire in the fighting.

“Certainly, Israel’s way of trying to destroy Hamas is wrong. From now on I will not talk about the peace process, but I want a two-state-solution process’, Borrell said.

“Which are the other solutions do they have in mind? To make all the Palestinians leave? To kill off them?”

Gaza destruction worse than in WWII Germany, EU's top diplomat says

After chairing a meeting of EU foreign ministers, Borrell said the situation in Gaza is "catastrophic, apocalyptic," with destruction proportionally "even greater" than that which Germany experienced in World War II.

The EU’s top diplomat said Israel's military response to Hamas' Oct. 7 attacks has resulted in "an incredible number of civilian casualties."

He said the EU was also "alarmed by the violence in the West Bank by extremist settlers" and condemned the Israeli government's decision to approve 1,700 more housing units in al-Quds (Jerusalem) in what Brussels considers a violation of international law.

Borrell also made clear he saw Israel's military operation as disproportionate in terms of civilian deaths and damage to civilian property and infrastructure.

"The human suffering constitutes an unprecedented challenge to the international community," he said.

"Civilian casualties are between 60% and 70% of the overall deaths," based on Gaza health ministry figures, and "85% of the population is internally displaced."

"The destruction of buildings in Gaza ... is more or less or even greater than the destruction suffered by the German cities during the Second World War," taken proportionally, Borrell said.