EU Foreign Ministers Agree on Sanctions for Israeli Settlers

sajadi Editor : Widi - Tuesday, 12 May 2026 - 18:57 WIB

Tuesday, 12 May 2026 - 18:57 WIB

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Brussels, MINA – European Union foreign ministers agreed on Monday to impose new sanctions targeting violent Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, the Palestine News Agency Wafa reports.

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas wrote in a post on X that she had greenlighted the sanctions. “EU Foreign Ministers just gave the go-ahead to sanction Israeli settlers over violence against Palestinians,” she said.

“It was high time we move from deadlock to delivery. Extremisms and violence carry consequences,” she added.

The sanctioned settler organizations include the Nachala association, which leads campaigns to establish new settler outposts and openly calls for the re-establishment of settlements in the Gaza Strip, as well as Amana, one of the most prominent organizations involved in building and expanding settler outposts in the West Bank.

The sanctions also targeted Hashomer Yosh and its executive director, Avihai Suissa. The organization operates under what it describes as the “protection of Area C lands” and has been involved in pursuing Palestinians and shepherds, as well as supporting settler pastoral outposts set up as part of a wider policy intended to forcibly displace indigenous Palestinian communities, particularly in the Jordan Valley and southern Hebron.

Also included was the Regavim movement and its director, Meir Deutsch, known for leading legal and media campaigns against Palestinian construction in the West Bank as well as in the Naqab, and for promoting demolition and displacement policies.

Also included was far-right settler activist Daniella Weiss, regarded as one of the leading figures of the settler movement, whose name has for decades been associated with settler expansion, incitement against Palestinians, and support for the establishment of new settler outposts.[]

Mi’raj News Agency (MINA)