{"id":34881,"date":"2026-07-19T06:15:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T06:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=34881"},"modified":"2026-07-19T06:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T06:15:09","slug":"eu-urges-israel-to-halt-settlement-expansion-as-settlers-attack-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=34881","title":{"rendered":"EU urges Israel to halt settlement expansion as settlers attack children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pressure is growing on the EU to sanction Israel for its expansion of illegal settlements and violence against Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The illegal Israeli settlement of Dolev, west of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank [File: AFP]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>The European Union has renewed its call on Israel to halt the expansion of settlements in the occupied West Bank, warning that continued construction and other unilateral measures threaten the viability of a future Palestinian state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An EU spokesperson on Friday urged Israel to stop the legalisation of settlement outposts, land appropriation, demolitions, forced evictions of Palestinians, and other actions that \u201cundermine the viability of the two-state solution\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The statement came days after Israel\u2019s security cabinet approved the allocation of 1.3 billion shekels ($427.8m) to establish 34 new settlements in the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding package marks one of Israel\u2019s largest recent investments in settlement expansion and has drawn criticism from Palestinian officials and international partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United Nations, the International Court of Justice and most countries consider Israeli settlements in territory occupied by Israel since 1967 to be illegal under international law. Israel rejects that interpretation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EU has long maintained that it does not recognise Israel\u2019s sovereignty over the territories it occupied in 1967. However, the 27-member bloc remains divided over whether to take stronger measures against Israel\u2019s settlement policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EU foreign ministers this week failed to reach a consensus<\/a> on proposals that could restrict trade with settlements in the occupied West Bank, despite growing calls from several member states for tougher action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The renewed diplomatic pressure comes amid continuing violence in the occupied West Bank, where Palestinians, including children<\/a>, have been injured in separate incidents involving Israeli settlers and Israeli forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Friday, two Palestinian children were taken to the hospital after suffering head and facial injuries when Israeli settlers allegedly hurled stones at their family\u2019s vehicle in the Wadi al-Sha\u2019er area, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another incident, a 16-year-old Palestinian boy was shot by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank. He remains in the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEverybody agrees that the situation in the West Bank is really intolerable,\u201d the EU\u2019s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said ahead of talks among EU foreign ministers in Brussels on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat is happening in the West Bank is actually making it more and more impossible that the two-state solution ever can come into effect,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reference Link:- https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/7\/17\/eu-urges-israel-to-halt-settlement-expansion-as-settlers-attack-children<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pressure is growing on the EU to sanction Israel for its expansion of illegal settlements and violence against Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank. The European Union has renewed its call on Israel to halt the expansion of settlements in the occupied West Bank, warning that continued construction and other unilateral measures threaten the viability […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[25547,24508,23877,1565,32079,32077,10003,19166,32078,25638,4935,1515],"class_list":["post-34881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sample-category","tag-annexation","tag-atrocities-2","tag-brutalities-2","tag-eu-2","tag-eu-urge-israel-to-halt-settlement-expansion","tag-forcing-local-residents-to-move-out","tag-genocide-2","tag-humanatarian-crisis-2","tag-illegal-occupation","tag-new-settlement","tag-war-crimes-2","tag-west-bank-2","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34882,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34881\/revisions\/34882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}