BERLIN   European Council President Antonio Costa criticized Israel's brutal military campaign in Gaza and renewed his call for an immediate ceasefire. “Now it's time to cease fire, to stop bombing, to stop killing people, to stop destroying Gaza and to stop illegal settlements in the West Bank,” he said Wednesday during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Berlin. Costa underlined that European countries had condemned the Oct. 7, 2023 attack by the Palestinian