European Referendum to impose sanctions on Benn Gvir and Smotrich

Hate messages
Borrell said in statements to reporters, before a meeting with foreign ministers of the European Union in Brussels: “I have started the procedure to ask member states if they think it is appropriate some ministers Add Israel to our sanctions list.”
Borrell described these ministers as “sending inappropriate hate messages against the Palestinians, and promoting ideas that are clearly against international law.” ” Borrell did not specify the name of any of the ministers he was referring to.
This is the first time that a high-ranking European official has spoken publicly about measures to impose sanctions on Israeli officials since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza in October 2023, as there were two previous rounds of sanctions. European bonds targeting Israelis and non-. Government agencies accused of “”Using violence”” in the West Bank.

Israeli movement
In order for the decision to be adopted, all EU member states must be unanimously adopted, as it relates to the EU’s foreign policy.
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said Wednesday night that Tel Aviv is working with its friends in Europe to prevent decisions “against Israel.”
Katz, in a post on the “X” platform, suggested that these decisions will be based on initiatives from “anti-Israel parties,” noting that the sanctions proposal was put on the anti-ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir who were sent by Europe. representative of the foreign policy of the Union, and sent to the member states of the Union a few days ago.
Israeli Channel 12 reported that Tel Aviv “is working to prevent the decision to impose sanctions on Smotrich and Ben Gvir, as well as to prevent the decision to cancel the agreement between Israel and the European Union which allows cooperation in several areas, in the light of calls from some members of the Union to cancel it.”
Israeli Army Radio suggested that the European Union would not make decisions against Israel, as Israel is responsible for the objection of Hungary, which also holds the rotating presidency of the Union, or the Czech Republic, to the proposal a resolution that must be adopted unanimously. . While Israel’s Channel 12 reported that Germany could join the countries that support Israel to prevent a resolution to be extradited.