Beyza Binnur Donmez<\/p>\n
20 April 2026\u2022Update: 20 April 2026<\/p>\n
UN experts on Monday called on the EU to immediately suspend its trade agreement with Israel, saying it is the \u201cminimum measure required\u201d under international law in light of alleged human rights violations.<\/p>\n
In a statement issued ahead of Tuesday\u2019s meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg, the experts said the EU-Israel Association Agreement should be fully suspended because Israel continues to receive preferential access to European markets despite \u201cwell-documented human rights violations that have escalated into atrocity crimes, including genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEurope faces a clear moral test, when its Foreign Ministers meet in Luxembourg tomorrow, 21 April, to consider the suspension, in full or in part of this Agreement,\u201d the experts said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe EU cannot credibly claim to uphold human rights while sustaining preferential trade with a State whose conduct has been found by multiple international bodies as amounting to genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n
The experts noted that the European Citizens\u2019 Initiative calling for suspension of the agreement had collected more than 1 million signatures.<\/p>\n
They also pointed to rulings by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and arrest warrants issued by the top UN court against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.<\/p>\n
\u201cFull suspension is not a matter of political discretion but a legal imperative incumbent on the European Union,\u201d the experts said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beyza Binnur Donmez 20 April 2026\u2022Update: 20 April 2026 UN experts on Monday called on the EU to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":{"0":"post-402260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-sitekeywords"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402260","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=402260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}