{"id":548861,"date":"2026-07-19T10:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T10:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/548861\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T10:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T10:33:10","slug":"belgium-bans-west-bank-imports-drawing-condemnations-from-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/548861\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium bans West Bank imports, drawing condemnations from Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The decision to introduce the ban was actually made in September 2025, but political disagreements and negotiations led to a delay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">A political agreement was finally made on Saturday, during an overnight marathon cabinet session just before the government entered its summer recess.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">This makes Belgium the fourth European country with an import ban on Israeli settlements. Spain was first in September 2025, followed by the Netherlands and then Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">No details of the bill are available yet, as the text has not been made public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">According to Belgian ministers, settlement goods will still be able to enter through the back door, in other words, from third-party countries.<\/p>\n<p>Following the announcement on Saturday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/politics-and-diplomacy\/article-902514\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MK Sharren Haskel<\/a> said, &#8220;Belgium has reached a point of no return.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It can continue importing radical Islam. We will continue exporting products from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-902506\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Judea and Samaria<\/a> to countries that choose to import innovation, quality, and technology.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The decision to introduce the ban was actually made in September 2025, but political disagreements and negotiations led&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[111,15311,1903,8861,42,112,43,4321,5091,71157,40,38,41,39,3793,77],"class_list":["post-548861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-antisemitism","tag-belgium","tag-diaspora","tag-global-trade","tag-headlines","tag-judea-and-samaria","tag-news","tag-sanctions","tag-settlements","tag-sharren-haskel","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-trade","tag-west-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548861","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=548861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}