EU formally green-lights sanctions against Israeli settlers – POLITICO

EU foreign ministers on Monday formally approved sanctions against Israeli settlers over attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank, after Hungary dropped months of opposition following its change of government.

"EU Foreign Ministers just gave the go-ahead to sanction Israeli settlers over violence against Palestinians," EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas wrote on X after the Foreign Affairs Council wrapped up in Brussels. "They also agreed new sanctions on leading Hamas figures. It was high time we move from deadlock to delivery. Extremisms and violence carry consequences."

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot struck a similarly forceful tone. "It’s done," he wrote on X. "The European Union is sanctioning today the main Israeli organisations guilty of supporting the extremist and violent colonisation of the West Bank, as well as their leaders," he said, adding that "these most serious and intolerable acts must cease without delay."