{"id":696,"date":"2026-05-12T03:50:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T03:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=696"},"modified":"2026-05-12T03:50:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T03:50:05","slug":"eu-agrees-long-stalled-sanctions-on-israeli-settlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=696","title":{"rendered":"EU agrees long-stalled sanctions on Israeli settlers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BRUSSELS: European Union foreign ministers on Monday agreed new sanctions on Israeli settlers over violence against Palestinians, as a change of government in Hungary ended months of blockage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s done. 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,\u201d French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot wrote on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese most serious and intolerable acts must cease without delay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The move in response to rising violence and settlement expansion in the Israeli-occupied West Bank had been stalled by former Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban.<\/p>\n<p>But the ouster of the nationalist leader and Israel ally, by rival Peter Magyar, now appears to have paved the way for the veto to be lifted.<\/p>\n<p>EU officials said seven settlers or settler organisations would be blacklisted. The bloc also agreed to sanction representatives from Palestinian group Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>The occupied West Bank has been gripped by almost daily violence since the start of the Gaza war in October 2023, involving Israeli troops and settlers.<\/p>\n<p>There has been a surge in deadly attacks by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank since the start of the Iran war on February 28, Palestinian officials and the United Nations have said.<\/p>\n<p>While the EU is moving ahead with the sanctions on Israeli settlers, there remains no consensus among member states to take further steps against Israel such as curbing trade ties.<\/p>\n<p>A number of countries are pushing to ban products from Israeli settlements in the West Bank.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe work on trade measures for products coming from the illegal settlements moves forward,\u201d an EU diplomat said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS: European Union foreign ministers on Monday agreed new sanctions on Israeli settlers over violence against Palestinians, as a change of government in Hungary ended months of blockage. \u201cIt\u2019s done. 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}