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The European Union agrees to impose sanctions on violent settlers in the West Bank

European Union foreign ministers have agreed to impose sanctions on a group of violent settlers in the West Bank, announced by the head of Spanish diplomacy, José Manuel Albarez, and confirmed by the European Union High Representative for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell.

“We have achieved a strong commitment” to imposing sanctions on violent settlers, Borrell celebrated at a news conference after the meeting in Brussels, where the severe humanitarian crisis in Gaza occupied much of the day in the increasingly vocal European Union. Israel allows more urgent humanitarian aid to enter by land.

According to diplomatic sources, these are six individuals, that is, fewer than those on whom countries such as Spain imposed unilateral sanctions, but the sources highlight the change in position implied by this political agreement within the European Union in which this issue was a few weeks ago. Just taboo. . Borrell pointed out that European sanctions are also harsher than national sanctions, because in addition to prohibiting the entry of identified persons into their territories, they imply the freezing of all property or assets that these persons may have on European territory.

At the same time, the ministers also agreed to impose new sanctions on Hamas. The two packages were approved unanimously on Monday, although their sequencing will be gradual rather than immediate, so as not to equalize the two groups, which has alarmed some more conservative countries about any gesture that could be construed as a move against Israel.