{"id":24488,"date":"2025-09-18T22:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T22:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/24488\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T22:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T22:25:09","slug":"can-eu-sanctions-force-israel-to-stop-its-genocide-in-gaza-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/24488\/","title":{"rendered":"Can EU sanctions force Israel to stop its genocide in Gaza? | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission calls for a suspension of free trade agreements with Israel in response to the war on Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The European Union says the humanitarian situation in Gaza is untenable.<\/p>\n<p>The bloc proposes a suspension of its trade agreement with Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list<\/p>\n<p>And it wants to impose sanctions on two ministers as well as settlers in the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n<p>The change would make trade between the EU and Israel more costly for Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal needs the approval of the European Council and may face a veto from some countries, including Germany.<\/p>\n<p>So will these financial measures pressure Israel to scale back its war?<\/p>\n<p>Presenter: Folly Bah Thibault<\/p>\n<p>Guests:<\/p>\n<p>Yannis Koutsomitis \u2013 European affairs analyst<\/p>\n<p>Akiva Eldar \u2013 Israeli political analyst<\/p>\n<p>Ulrich Bruckner \u2013 Jean Monnet professor for European Studies<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"avatar\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/author\/inside_story_201141283543630792\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/replace_default_avatar.jpeg\"   aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Published On 18 Sep 202518 Sep 2025<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The European Commission calls for a suspension of free trade agreements with Israel in response to the war&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[63,85,46,47,43,48],"class_list":["post-24488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-europe","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-palestine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}