“While Israel and the US 'do Europe's dirty work', fighting for civilization against jihadist madmen in Iran and elsewhere, the EU shows its moral bankruptcy by presenting a false symmetry between Israeli citizens and Hamas terrorists,” reads a post on the official account of the Israeli Prime Minister on X.
The European Union is introducing sanctions against Israeli settlers and Hamas representatives
Kallas said in the same message that the foreign ministers of the EU countries also adopted new sanctions on leading representatives of the Palestinian Hamas.
“Extremism and violence have consequences,” the EU foreign policy chief emphasized in her entry in X.
West Bank. Netanyahu: the heart of our ancestral homeland
Binyamin Netanyahu also said that punishing Jews for “living in Judea and Samaria” is “unacceptable” and that Israel will always protect their rights to live “in the heart of the homeland of our ancestors.”
Judea and Samaria is the official Israeli term for the territory known in other languages as the West Bank, West Bank or Cisjordan. This territory was occupied by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War and remains under its occupation. Since the mid-1990s, part of the West Bank has been co-administered by the Palestinian Authority.
The name used by Israel refers to the historical kingdoms of Judea and Samaria, which in the 9th century BC occupied the area of today's West Bank and modern Israel, excluding the Negev Desert.
Approximately 3 million Palestinians and half a million Jewish settlers currently live in the West Bank. The current Israeli government supports the expansion of settlements, although most countries in the world consider Jewish settlement in this area illegal.
Human rights organizations and the media have been reporting for months on an increase in violence by extremist settler groups against Palestinians, including deadly attacks.
The UN recorded more than 1,800 settler attacks in 2025 that led to casualties or destruction of property in approximately 280 Palestinian communities in the West Bank.
The EU has previously imposed sanctions on representatives of radical Jewish settlers.
A total of over 700,000 people live in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, annexed by Israel in 1980. settlers. Most settlements were built wholly or partially on private Palestinian land.
