EU's mission in Gaza is to help deploy Palestinian police force, French minister says

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot on Monday said that EU's mission in Gaza is to help deploy a Palestinian police force, news agency Reuters reported. 

The comments come as US Vice President JD Vance said that security infrastructure needs to be in place and international peacekeepers need to deploy to Gaza before Hamas disarms.

“Before we actually can ensure that Hamas is properly disarmed, that’s going to require… some of these Gulf Arab states to get forces in there to actually apply some law and order and some security-keeping on the ground,” Vance told reporters.

“We don’t even have the security infrastructure in place, meaning the Gulf Arab states, our allies, don’t have the security infrastructure in place yet to confirm that Hamas is disarmed,” he added.