26/6/2025–|Last update: 23:26 (Mecca time)
The European Summit statement conducted in Brussels Extravagance, settlement violence, and illegal expansion of Israeli settlements and military operations in the West Bank, and also called for an immediate end to the war on Gaza Strip.
Although the European Summit statement called for the imposition of sanctions on extremist settlers and their supporters, it was devoid of talking about possible sanctions on Israel, despite the internal testimony of the Union that it violated the partnership agreement with it.
The Summit statement indicated that a report on Israel’s compliance with the partnership agreement with the European Union will be discussed next July, amid the continued pressure and demands from some member states to impose sanctions on Tel Aviv, as happened with Moscow.
The European Diplomatic Affairs Department stated last week that there are indications that Israel It violated its related obligations Human rights According to the terms of the agreement that regulates its relations with European Union.
The leaders of the bloc said that “the European Council is aware of the report regarding Israel’s compliance with the second article of the partnership agreement between the European Union and Israel, and we call on the council to continue the discussions regarding the follow -up of the matter, as needed, in July 2025, taking into account the development of the situation on the ground.”
In addition, he called European Union Also, to an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, the unconditional release of all Israeli prisoners, and demanded that Israel to lift the siege completely, and to allow humanitarian aid to arrival without obstacle.
The statement condemned the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza, especially Famine And the fall of civilian victims, carrying the Islamic Resistance Movement (agitation) Responsibility for its refusal to hand over the remaining “hostages”, and called for more penalties for it.
On the Iranian issue, the statement stressed the need for Tehran not to have a nuclear weapon and support the diplomatic solution.
French condemnation of settlers’ violence
In the same context, France condemned – today, Thursday, the repeated attacks by the settlers over the Palestinians in West Bank The occupied, and the Israeli government called for decisive measures to stop their violence.
The French Foreign Ministry stated that Paris The repeated attacks by the Israeli settlers on the Palestinians in the West Bank are condemned, noting that during the past few days, 4 Palestinians have been killed in the towns of Kafr Malik near Ramallah, and a photo near Hebron (South of the West Bank).
And invited France The Israeli government to take decisive measures to end the violence practiced by extremist settlers.
She indicated that she reaffirms her condemnation of settlement activity and her severe opposition to any form of annexation (for the Palestinian territories).
She emphasized that at the national level, she adopted France 59 individual punishment for extremist settlers who practiced violence against Palestinian civilians in West Bank.
The settlers’ attack in Kafr Malik was met with a Palestinian condemnation, which was also joined by Israeli politicians, such as the leader of the opposition Democrats, Yair Golan, describing what happened in the village as a violent Jewish massacre.
During last May, Israeli settlers committed 415 attacks in the occupied West Bank, according to the data of the Wall Resistance Authority. And settlement (Palestinian government).
The Broadcasting Authority stated that the attacks ranged between armed attacks on Palestinian villages, imposing facts on the ground, field executions, sabotage, bulldozing lands, uprooting trees, seizing property, closure and barriers that cut off the bonds of Palestinian geography.
Parallel to the extermination in the Gaza Strip, Sahed Israeli army The settlers are their attacks in the West Bank, including it Jerusalem East, which led to the death of at least 986 Palestinians, the injury of about 7,000 others, and the arrest of more than 17 thousand and 500, according to Palestinian data.
And launch IsraelWith American support, since October 7, 2023, war genocide In Gaza, more than 188,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11 thousand missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands of displaced people and the famine that have been tired of many children, including children.