EU agrees on sanctions targeting Israeli occupiers in West Bank

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Extremisms and violence carry consequences," Kallas said on X. The decision came as EU foreign ministers gathered in Brussels for a meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council.
46% : The European Union is sanctioning today the main Israeli organizations guilty of supporting the extremist and violent colonization of the West Bank, as well as their leaders.
45% : These most serious and intolerable acts must cease without delay," French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on US social media platform X. Barrot said the EU also adopted sanctions against "the main leaders of Hamas.
39% : EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas also confirmed the decision, saying EU foreign ministers "gave the go-ahead to sanction Israeli settlers over violence against Palestinians.
34% : European Union foreign ministers agreed Monday on a new round of sanctions targeting Israeli occupiers and organizations accused of supporting illegal settlement activity in the occupied West Bank.
33% : The occupied West Bank has seen escalating violence since the start of Israel's war on the Gaza Strip in October 2023, including killings, arrests, home demolitions and settlement expansion, according to Palestinian officials.

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