The Netherlands is still working on the law to prevent imports from illegal settlements in Palestine, although the cessation of attacks on Gaza, the foreign minister last month, the foreign minister of a foreign minister during a visit to the region.
The partial ban is a response to Palestinian settlement expansion that threatens the sustainability of the two-state solution, David Van Weel said after visiting an area in the West Bank targeted by settlers.
“Now we consider that this is not the time to increase the sanctions on Israel because we want to see the peace plan implemented and we also want to encourage Israel to play a positive part in it,” he told a Talk in a Talk.
“At the same time, we are not separate from any moves in the West Bank that could move the two-state solution further (away).”
Five EU countries have announced plans to impose sanctions on the sale of Israeli settlements to those occupied in the West Bank, where soldiers and Solmeter have killed more than 200 Palestinians this year, including 40 children.
Spain and Slovenia have banned exports from those areas; Ireland and Belgium work on legislation and enforcement. Belgium and Spain cut consular services to settle residents.
Van Weel said drafting the law was slow and difficult because trade policy was largely controlled by the EU.
“It’s not easy to make a load,” he said. “We will not stop [all imports from illegal settlements] Immediately because there is currently no illegal basis for that. We are trying to make a new policy now, then it has to go through the Parliament. “
Attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank and Political Demands Within Israel for annexation have risen over the past two years.
An average of eight daily Israeli attacks on people, property and agriculture in occupied Palestine occurred in October – the highest figure from the UN began keeping records for almost two decades ago. Many more attacks are unknown.
Last month, a court gave preliminary approval to a bill that would continue advertising in the West Bank there, although Donald Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, opposed it.
Nine member states in June were asked by the EU Commission to examine how to cut the trade in Israeli settlements, to occupy the international occupation of the international occupation of Israel as soon as possible.
The court also advised that other states have an obligation not to aid or assist Israel, or to recognize the occupation as lawful. The request was brought to Belgium, Finland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden.
Israeli exports from the Palestinian territories are a small part of the EU’s total trade, so the sanctions serve as a political message of an important Palestinian constraint.
However, Europe has great leverage over Israel’s economy. Together, the EU Member States are Israel’s largest trading partners, accounting for a third of the world’s trade in goods, but they have not yet come together to be used effectively.
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That’s the change this year in response to the famine and mass killings in Gaza, where scholars, rights groups and a rights commission say Israel is committed to Israel.
The Netherlands, historically one of Israel’s most loyal allies in Israel, launched an unprecedented push in May to review the approval of the EU association, which is the gathering of the Tariff and culture of the Horizon Confation Convation.
A review found Israel breached its human rights obligations under the deal, and in September the EU probed a sweeping suspension of free trade with Israel and foreign ministers.
The steps taken after the cessation of hostilities in Trumped to no avail but were not taken off the table. Hundreds of senior diplomats took part in a month-long campaign urging the EU to respond to Israeli violations in Gaza and the West Bank.
Banning trade with illegal settlements should be part of a broader package of measures, including those proposed in September, said Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff, one of the co-organizers and a former EU envoy to occupied Palestine.
“Takes the most favorable trade arrangements for Israel right under the association agreement, [imposing sanctions on] the far-right ministers Ben Gvir and [Bezalel] Smotrich and suspended Israel’s access to the European horizon … along with a total ban on trade with Israeli political settlements,” he said.
“Business as usual … time for decline is over.”