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EU Adds Israeli Settler Groups and Leaders to Human‑Rights Sanctions List

The move targets organisations and individuals the EU says drove systematic abuses and displacement in the West Bank and signals a tougher use of EU human‑rights tools.

FILE PHOTO: European Union flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters, on the day farmers protest against proposed cuts to Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) funding and the European Commission's plan to merge agricultural and cohesion policies, in Brussels, Belgium July 16, 2025. REUTERS/Yves Herman/File Photo

Overview

  • The Council of the European Union on Thursday adopted restrictive measures that list four settler‑linked entities and three individuals under the EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime.
  • Designated groups include the Nachala Settlement Movement, Regavim, Hashomer Yosh and the Amana cooperative and named individuals are Daniella Weiss, Meir Deutsch and Avichai Suissa.
  • The measures impose asset freezes, bar providing funds or economic resources to the listed parties and add travel bans for the named individuals with the legal acts published in the Official Journal.
  • EU officials said the listings respond to alleged systematic violations of rights in the West Bank, citing forced displacement and settler violence documented by UN reporting, and enforcement now depends on member states implementing the freezes and travel restrictions.
  • The step followed a political agreement on May 11 that became possible after Hungary lifted a previous veto and it was announced alongside separate EU listings that expand sanctions on Hamas decision‑makers; with these additions the human‑rights regime covers 136 people and 41 entities.