The EU defends that it will continue with its sanctions against violent settlers despite Trump’s decisions

The European Union has defended this Friday that it will continue with its policy of sanctioning violent Israeli settlers despite the decision of the US president, Donald Trump, to revoke the measures approved by his predecessor Joe Biden to punish groups and individuals involved in attacks against Palestinians In the West Bank.

“This does not affect our policy. We will continue to concern about these attacks and continue to discuss sanctions against violent settlers,” said EU in response to the steps taken by Washington to withdraw the sanctions.

This same Friday, it has been known that when revoking the sanctions promulgated by the last administration biden for violence in the West Bank, the new administration of Donald Trump has also exonerated the Palestinian armed group known as the lion’s lair.

The White House announced Monday on its website that the president had terminated the executive order promulgated by Biden in February 2024 to stop the situation of violence in the West Bank, fed by the outbreak four months before the Gaza War, and that affected Therefore, dozens of Israeli supremacist settlers and organizations as to this Palestinian armed group.

Last July, the EU approved sanctions against five extremist settlers and three entities for committing “serious and systematic abuse” against the human rights of the Palestinian population in the West Bank, including the physical and verbal harassment of residents and attacks against villages. In recent months he has continued to discuss measures against more people, although this last batch has not been completed.

The block uses the global regime of sanctions on human rights that applies to more than a hundred people worldwide and include the freezing of assets, the prohibition of providing them funds or resources directly or indirectly, as well as the veto entry to community territory.