{"id":456154,"date":"2026-05-23T12:35:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T12:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/456154\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T12:35:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T12:35:28","slug":"netherlands-proposes-ban-on-import-of-goods-from-israeli-west-bank-settlements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/456154\/","title":{"rendered":"Netherlands proposes ban on import of goods from Israeli West Bank settlements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Netherlands has put forth a motion to ban the import of goods originating in allegedly \u201cillegal\u201d Israeli <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-895803\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">settlements in the West Bank<\/a>, according to a government press release on the matter on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Cabinet-proposed sanctions would prohibit Dutch nationals and legal entities in and outside of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/article-894273\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netherlands<\/a> from importing goods produced in settlements, buying or selling the goods, and providing intermediary services relating to the goods.<\/p>\n<p>The temporary sanctions decree, which was submitted to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-893970\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dutch<\/a> Council of State for an expedited decision, is aimed at preventing \u201cDutch economic activities from contributing to the perpetuation of a situation that is contrary to international law,\u201d the Cabinet claimed.<\/p>\n<p>It also accused Israel of \u201cunlawful\u201d occupation of Palestinian territory and the Golan Heights, alleging that the expansion of settlements and increasing Israeli <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/crime-in-israel\/article-894496\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">settler violence<\/a> is \u201ccausing a continuously deteriorating situation, making a two-state solution increasingly distant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cThe Netherlands has an international obligation not to contribute to the maintenance of the unlawful occupation,\u201d the Cabinet asserted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Netherlands has put forth a motion to ban the import of goods originating in allegedly \u201cillegal\u201d Israeli&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,12512,43,4321,5091,40,38,41,39,77],"class_list":["post-456154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-netherlands","tag-news","tag-sanctions","tag-settlements","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-west-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456154","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=456154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}