Threat of EU sanctions against Israel 'remains on the table', Kaja Kallas warns

Published on 20/10/2025 - 21:14 GMT+2

The European Union won't enforce imaginable sanctions connected Israel now complete nan warfare successful Gaza, but hasn't taken them disconnected nan array yet either, nan bloc's overseas argumentation main Kaja Kallas said connected Monday.

Ten days aft nan US-brokered ceasefire came into effect, nan 27 European overseas ministers who gathered successful Luxembourg said they considered nan business excessively "fragile" to afloat region unit connected Israeli authorities.

"The ceasefire has changed nan context, that is very clear for everybody. However, unless we spot existent and sustained alteration connected nan ground, including much assistance reaching Gaza, nan threat of sanctions remains connected nan table," Kallas said astatine a property conference.

Other prerequisites see entree to nan Strip for journalists and humanitarian assistance workers and nan registration of NGOs to beryllium unrestricted.

"We request to spot really nan betterment of humanitarian assistance reaching Gaza. We request to spot besides Palestinian (tax) revenues to beryllium fixed to Palestine aliases released by nan Israeli authorities. We request to spot journalists and humanitarian assistance workers getting in. We request to spot besides nan world NGOs registration to beryllium unrestricted," Kallas said.

In nan look of nan deteriorating humanitarian business successful Gaza and Israel's blockade connected assistance deliveries to Gaza, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen projected 3 measures past month.

The first was nan partial suspension of nan relation statement betwixt nan EU and Israel, nan freezing of bilateral assistance pinch nan objection of support to civilian nine and nan Holocaust remembrance centre Yad Vashem, arsenic good arsenic individual sanctions against 2 Israeli far-right ministers and convulsive settlers successful nan West Bank.

But these proposals grounded to materialise arsenic personnel states person very different views connected these issues.