EU foreign ministers have not reached a consensus to approve sanctions against Israel’s far Right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas said on Monday.
“Many member states have also proposed to sanction Ben-Gvir, but no consensus on that was reached,” she said.
Western governments have expressed outrage after Ben-Gvir posted a video of himself taunting activists who had intended to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza being pinned to the ground.
Meanwhile, Australia, Canada, France, Norway, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom imposed coordinated sanctions on West Bank individuals they accuse of “horrific abuses against Palestinian civilians” on June 9.
Mathilda Heller and Michael Starr contributed to this report.