{"id":2822,"date":"2025-09-19T02:37:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T02:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/19\/can-eu-sanctions-force-israel-to-stop-its-genocide-in-gaza\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T02:37:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T02:37:02","slug":"can-eu-sanctions-force-israel-to-stop-its-genocide-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/19\/can-eu-sanctions-force-israel-to-stop-its-genocide-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Can EU sanctions force Israel to stop its genocide in Gaza?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission calls for a suspension of free trade agreements with Israel in response to the war on Gaza.<\/p>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>The European Union says the humanitarian situation in Gaza is untenable.<\/p>\n<p>The bloc proposes a suspension of its trade agreement with Israel.<\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n<p><span>list of 3 items<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>list 1 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/newsfeed\/2025\/9\/17\/eu-proposes-suspending-trade-concessions-with-israel-over-gaza\">EU proposes suspending trade concessions with Israel over Gaza<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 2 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/9\/17\/dehumanisation-how-israel-is-able-to-commit-its-genocide-in-gaza\">Dehumanisation: How Israel is able to commit its genocide in Gaza<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 3 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/9\/17\/will-a-boycott-over-israel-divide-the-eurovision-song-contest\">Will a boycott over Israel divide the Eurovision Song Contest?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>And it wants to impose sanctions on two ministers as well as settlers in the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n<p>The change would make trade between the EU and Israel more costly for Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal needs the approval of the European Council and may face a veto from some countries, including Germany.<\/p>\n<p>So will these financial measures pressure Israel to scale back its war?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Folly Bah Thibault<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yannis Koutsomitis \u2013 European affairs analyst<\/p>\n<p>Akiva Eldar \u2013 Israeli political analyst<\/p>\n<p>Ulrich Bruckner \u2013 Jean Monnet professor for European Studies<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission calls for a suspension of free trade agreements with Israel in response to the war on Gaza. The European Union says the humanitarian situation in Gaza is untenable. The bloc proposes a suspension of its trade agreement with Israel. Recommended Stories list of 3 items list 1 of 3EU proposes suspending trade &#8230; <a title=\"Can EU sanctions force Israel to stop its genocide in Gaza?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/19\/can-eu-sanctions-force-israel-to-stop-its-genocide-in-gaza\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Can EU sanctions force Israel to stop its genocide in Gaza?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}