In view of a review of a harmful European Union review of Israel’s human rights records in Gaza, Spain Prime Minister Pedro Sanchhez slammed his colleagues not to proceed to suspend a business deal with Israel, despite he called “a terrible situation of massacre”.
According to Hamas-Run Gajan officials, more than 185,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli bombing for more than 18 months. Israel denied allegations of genocide, ensuring that it is in the ruling terrorist Islamic Group Hamas War after a large -scale terrorist attack in the Israeli region in 2023.
In a report distributed to member states last week based on the findings and allegations of major international bodies, the European external action service found that Israel was violating its duty to honor human rights.
The document is not public, but DW is made available, highlighted the possible indiscriminate attacks affecting the civilian population, attacking with attacks on the blockade and medical facilities of Israel on food and therapy. “There are indications that Israel will be in violation of its human rights obligations,” the report said.
Arriving at a Summit of European Union in Brussels on Thursday, Sanchez said that it was “more than clear that Israel is violating Article 2 of the European Union Union-Israel Agreement.”
“We have packaged 18 ban for its aggression against Russia [in Ukraine]And Europe, with its double standards, is not able to suspend the association agreement, “said Sanchez.
Card suspension
Spain and Ireland have been isolated to fully suspend the deal suspension in 27 European Union states, a step that would require unanimous and therefore never a serious possibility. Greece, Germany, Hungary, Austria and Bulgaria remain close to Israel.
Berlin has particularly made his ideas clear, Chancellor Frederick Merz describes the move as “out of question with federal” [German] Government. ,
Doing so would be a major commercial disruption, especially for Israel, which buys a third of its goods from the European Union. Since 2000, in the agreement, both sides from business relations every year – $ 50 billion every year – for goods alone – up to political dialogue, and cooperation on research and technology.
Another possibility, only one of the 15 out of 27 requires only one qualified majority, the deal will be partial suspension, for example, its commission on free trade or closing Israel for the research of the European Union is searching the program horizon. But many diplomatic sources told DW that there were no numbers.
Top EU diplomat: target ‘not punishing Israel’
Earlier in the week, the European Union’s foreign affairs head Kaza Kalas presented the document to the member states for the first debate, making it already clarifying that there would be no immediate step.
“This is not to punish Israel, but to trigger concrete reforms for people’s lives in people and people in Gaza,” he said on Monday. “If the situation does not improve, we can discuss further measures and come back to it in July.”
On Thursday, at the summit, the European Union leaders in their joint statement only “paid attention to”, no reference to violations of possible rights, and said that the minister should reconsider the subject next month. At the same time, 27 leaders abolished “strict humanitarian status in Gaza, unacceptable number of civic casualties and starvation levels”.
‘No foreign policy topic’ more divisive than Israel
Spain has called Israel for European Union Embarges on arms sale, one of the major suppliers in the country of Germany, as well as with more restrictions. However, Berlin recently confirmed that it would continue to sell Israel’s weapons, and on the board without Germany, the move does not have an impact.
Some other countries including Belgium, France and Sweden have supported the implementation of additional European Union sanctions on Israel, but the thesis also requires unanimous.
Sanchez, Irish leader Michael Martin, said that he tells the older colleagues at the summit that “the people of Europe seem to be ineligible that Europe does not seem to be in a position to pressurize Israel.”
For Lisa Mousiol of the Conflict Resolution Think Tank Crisis Group, maximum pressure will complete a large scale ban against government members or full suspension of the association agreement.
“But almost no European leader speaks of such measures,” Mousiol told DW in a written statement. “Perhaps there is no firing policy theme, the European Union where members states are so divided.”
Iran pushed stress member states back to old positions
Last month, it was looking for a letter as the European Union was actually hardening its stance. Dutch proposed a review of the association agreement, and the move was Greenlight on May 20 by most states of the European Union.
It could issue a rare joint statement shortly after France, Britain and Canada, with Israel’s latest aggressive aggressive in Gaza and abolished its restrictions on assistance as “Woholi Disproportive”, and possibly in violation of the International Humanitarian law.
There was a specific feeling that policy could change.
Mousiol of the Sankat Group said that the window was now closed. “It seems that after the recent growing between Israel and Iran, many member states have fallen to their old positions,” he said.
“Even the member states that have traditionally been a strong supporter of Israel, but have changed their tone like Germany or Italy, such as Germany or Italy.”
Edited by: Andreas Ilmer
