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<\/a><\/p>\nAccording to him, the issue is “something that the international community needs to take on board.”<\/p>\n
Government has introduced travel bans on Israeli Ministers Ben-Gvir and Smotrich. <\/p>\n
We will also continue to raise the possibility of sanctions at EU level.<\/p>\n
Responding to the move in a post on X, Ben-Gvir said , “If this antisemite is calling for ‘sanctions’ against me, it probably means I did something right.”<\/p>\n
Speaking to Ireland’s state broadcaster about the sanctions against the two ministers, Martin also said that “given now that the blockage in terms of the sanctions against settlers, in my view, their behavior justifies sanctions at EU level as well, and that’s something that we will raise.”<\/p>\n
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Last week, Irish Foreign Minister Helen McEntee said Dublin aims to pass a law curbing goods trade with settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank by mid-July.<\/p>\n
Ireland’s government, one of the most outspoken critics of Israel’s war in Gaza, first promised to sanction Israeli settlements in October 2024. The legislation has since been held up by pressure from opposition politicians who aimed to extend the ban also to services trade, on one side, and international company lobbyists seeking to scrap the bill, on the other.<\/p>\n
Sources told Reuters last October that the bill was set to be limited to goods. Ireland’s prime minister said in late May that widening the scope to services was neither “implementable” nor “viable.”<\/p>\n
The video posted by National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, in which he cheers the abuse of activists from the Gaza Sumud flotilla.<\/p>\n