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What the reporting established
It additionally recruits armed volunteers and provides guards who engage in violent attacks, the EU added. The Amana cooperative association of the settler movement Gush Emunim was additionally sanctioned, the EU stating it had likewise “played a key role in initiating, financing, and facilitating no fewer than 30 violent outposts and settlements”.
Israeli NGO Regavim and its director, Meir Deutsch, are additionally on the sanctions list for lobbying “for the demolition of Palestinian property” in order to expand Israel’s control over the entirety of the West Bank, plus the demolition of an EU-funded Palestinian primary school. additionally sanctioned is the Hashomer Yosh NGO and its president, Avichai Suissa for supporting “no fewer than 28 violent outposts and settlements”.
The sanctions include the Nachala Settlement Movement and its director, Daniella Weiss. The EU states the group “encourages and facilitates coercive acts that lead to the forced displacement of Palestinians”.
The EU stated they had violated a range of rights, including the rights to physical and mental integrity, privacy and family life, freedom of religion and education. The announcement on Thursday is part of an EU sanctions package agreed earlier this month to punish Israeli settlers and Hamas leaders.
European Union states sanctioned individuals and groups have violated the rights of Palestinians. The European Union has sanctioned four entities and three individuals it states are “extremist Israeli settlers” responsible for “serious” human rights abuses against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
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