COPENHAGEN 

Denmark has joined growing international calls urging Israel to abandon its planned large-scale offensive in Gaza, describing the situation as “alarming and unsustainable, and called for a UN Security Council meeting on the issue,” the Danish state broadcaster DR reported Wednesday.

Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said Denmark, along with France, the United Kingdom, and others, requested an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to address the escalating humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

“We strongly distance ourselves from an Israeli offensive, and Israel must ensure unhindered access for emergency aid,” Rasmussen said on X.

Speaking to DR earlier, the minister criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s pledge to strike Gaza “with full force,” warning that such action “violates all applicable rules” and indicates Israel is failing to meet its international obligations.

Earlier, Denmark's UN envoy Christina Markus Lassen echoed her European colleagues and emphasized that the people of Gaza do not need a new humanitarian mechanism but an end to the aid blockade at the borders without conditions.

Copenhagen has earlier dismissed US President Donald Trump’s plan to take control of the Gaza Strip as an unrealistic approach to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“It doesn’t seem to me to be a realistic way forward,” Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen told the Danish broadcaster DR.

“The countries surrounding Israel and Palestine have said very, very clearly that they will not adopt a Palestinian challenge. These are countries that have already taken a big drag if you look at Jordan and Lebanon,” he said, referring to Palestinian refugees in those countries.