With no break in Israel’s war with Hamas terrorists and invasion of the Gaza Strip, Greece’s Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis said he believes a plan to bring humanitarian aid to trapped Palestinians would work.

He said talks aimed at doing that could bring results, after he met with his Israeli and Palestinian peers and that Greece’s historically strong ties with Arab countries could be influential and broker a deal.

“I am in constant communication with both parties and I am relatively optimistic that we could have some positive results soon,” he said, reported Reuters, although Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has backed Israel.

That was in the wake of Hamas Oct. 7 raids into Israel that killed more than 1,200 people and saw such brutal reprisals by Israel that it’s been reported more than 10,000 Palestinians have been killed in air strikes, thousands of them children.

Since then, Greece has tried to walk the line and urged Israel to avoid civilians although the Israelis said the terrorists are hiding among them behind human shields and unlike conventional wars, aren’t wearing uniforms.

World pressure is also building although Israel and the United States have rejected a ceasefire, saying that would give Hamas room to counterattack while it’s holding 239 hostages.

Gerapetritis said he believed Israel was considering allowing increased aid and would be eager to hear options during the constant bombardment and siege of the Gaza Strip, limited aid being allowed in.

Cyprus has made a proposal, which Greece endorses, to open a maritime corridor to expand capacity for relief into the Palestinian enclave beyond the Rafah crossing from Egypt, the news agency said.

Another alternative is via a port in Israel then a northern entry point into Gaza, Gerapetritis said. “The fastest way is the best way,’ he added, stressing that a humanitarian pause in fighting was essential.

He said that while Israel has the right of self-defense that the rules of war should apply although the terrorists won’t follow them and butchered children, burning some of them alive.

“We cannot put up with the situation in Gaza,” he said. “It’s the humanitarian moral values that we have to embrace, all of us, and we have to do it immediately,” and that Palestinians should be differentiated from Hamas.

After the war, he said, governance of Gaza must be “highly legitimized,” and opposed to terrorism although Israel has said he might consider a kind of occupation to eliminate Hamas and prevent any more attacks.