#eu #israel #palestine : #gaza / #genocide / #warcabinet / #humanrights / #sanctions

„The European Union is a study in #cognitivedissonance. It threatens Netanyahu with arrest. It bans Ben Gvir & Smotrich from entering European soil. Yet it continues to uphold preferential trade relations with Israel itself. It sanctions individual Israeli leaders but shields and sustains the state apparatus and political system that empowers them. The EU cannot have it both …

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https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/29/stop-blaming-netanyahu-stupid/

#israel #palestine : #westbank / #warcabinet / #settlers / #occupation / #annexation / #internationallaw

„Israel has re-established a settlement in the Palestinian village of Sanur, 20 years after it was dismantled as part of Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.

The village (…) is the latest project amid an acceleration of settlement #expansion in the occupied West Bank, which has risen sharply since the start of Israel’s genocide in Gaza in 2023.“

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-restores-illegal-settlement-minister-demands-occupation-gaza

#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #westbank / #opt / #warcabinet / #uno / #settlement / #annexation / #internationallaw

„The U.N. human rights office said on Friday an Israeli plan to build to build thousands of new homes between an Israeli settlement in the West Bank and near East Jerusalem was illegal under international law, and would put nearby Palestinians at risk of forced eviction, which it described as a #warcrime.“

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-rights-office-says-israeli-settlement-plan-breaks-international-law-2025-08-15/

#eu #norway #israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #warcabinet / #settlements / #occupation / #annexation

„• Far-right minister says Netanyahu and Trump back E1 project
• Palestinians fear land fragmentation will rob them of state
• EU, Norway, rights groups condemn plan
• Construction was frozen in Maale Adumim after outcry“

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israels-smotrich-launches-settlement-plan-bury-idea-palestinian-state-2025-08-14/

#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #warcabinet / #blockade

„Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on July 6 sharply criticised a Cabinet decision to allow some aid into Gaza as a “grave mistake” that he said would benefit the militant Palestinian group Hamas.

Mr Smotrich also accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of failing to ensure that Israel’s military is following government directives in prosecuting the war against Hamas in Gaza.“

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/influential-far-right-israeli-minister-lashes-out-at-netanyahu-over-gaza-war-policy

#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #warcabinet / #blockade / #genocide

(Sorry - it’s hard to find the passage)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jun/26/donald-trump-strikes-iran-nuclear-programme-intelligence-israel-latest-updates-news

#australia #uk #canada #newzealand #norway #israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #warcabinet / #sanctions

„Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand and Norway jointly imposed the sanctions, which will restrict the right to travel and will freeze the financial assets of the Israeli security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir; and the finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich.“

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/world/canada/uk-canada-sanctions-israel-smotrich-ben-gvir.html?unlocked_article_code=1.N08.TN1B.J3jEJiWhcnmq&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare