The European Council on Thursday measures taken against extremist Israeli settlers to curb human rights violations against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
The restrictive measures were adopted as part of the Global EU human rights sanctions regimewhich allows the EU to “impose sanctions on individuals and organizations in response to human rights violations and violations worldwide.” It set out measures against “four organizations and three individuals” that the EU believes have enabled and/or supported Israeli extremism and systematic human rights violations against Palestinians. The European Council named the Nachala Settlement Movement and its leader Daniella Weiss and declared that the “outposts” of the Nachala Settlement were “persistent sources of settler violence.” The Council also appointed Amana, the NGO Regavim and its director Meir Deutsch, and the NGO Hashomer Yosh and its president Avichai Suissa.
The restrictive measures include an asset freeze, a “ban on making funds or economic resources available to them, directly or indirectly,” and a travel ban.
During 2026, the Israeli government “accelerated the illegal settlement expansion and ‘annexation’ of the occupied West Bank.” According to a UN report in March, “this has led to the forced displacement of over 36,000 Palestinians” and “enabled the drastic escalation of settler violence.”
Forced displacement of the civilian population is prohibited by the Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Violence against civilians is also prohibited under the Geneva Conventions and the ICC Statute.
The European Council stated that its additional measures are in line with this Political agreement of the Foreign Affairs Council on May 11, 2026, condemning growing settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and reaffirming the need to impose sanctions on “extremist settlers” and “senior Hamas figures.”
