EU must ban trade with Israeli settlements: Amnesty International

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen must announce a trade ban on illegal Israeli settlements, Amnesty International has said. The human rights group added that despite a 2025 “State of the European Union” speech that proposed suspending trade in the EU-Israel Association Agreement and sanctioning Israeli ministers and settlers, no progress has been made despite member states imposing their own measures. Amnesty warned of “consequences” for EU inaction, saying it would damage the “credib

This story was originally reported by Arab News. As an automated real-time news aggregator, NewsToolBar provides multi-perspective indexing and AI summarization while directing full readership directly to primary publisher sources.