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'Betrayal' Rights groups rebuke EU for failure to impose sanctions
The Guardian
|July 17, 2025
The EU has been accused of a "cruel and unlawful betrayal" of Palestinians and of European values for failing to take action to impose sanctions on Israel over the war in Gaza.
The stinging rebuke from Amnesty International, echoed by other human rights organisations, came after EU ministers meeting in Brussels on Tuesday declined to endorse any measures to impose sanctions on Israel over the brutal war in Gaza and violence in the West Bank.
The EU's most senior diplomat, Kaja Kallas, said the bloc would keep "options on the table" to put pressure on Israel's government if there was no improvement in the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
According to several diplomatic sources she did not endorse any one of 10 sanctions options drawn up by her team, after an earlier EU review found "indications" that Israel was in breach of human rights commitments.
Kallas said Israel needed to "take more concrete steps to improve the humanitarian situation on the ground", which earlier in the day she had described as "catastrophic".
This story is from the July 17, 2025 edition of The Guardian.
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