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Borrell asks EU states about sanctions on some Israeli ministers over ‘hate messages’
High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell attends a meeting with Vietnam's Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son (not pictured) at the Government Guest House in Hanoi on July 30, 2024. (Nhac NGUYEN / AFP)
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says he has started the process of asking member states if they want to impose sanctions on “some Israeli ministers.”
“I initiated the procedure to ask the member states if they consider [it] appropriate to include in our list of sanctions some Israeli ministers [who] have been launching unacceptable hate messages against the Palestinians, and proposing things that clearly go against international law,” he tells reporters ahead of a meeting with EU foreign affairs ministers in Brussels.
He does not name any of the Israeli ministers to whom he is referring, but multiple reports have named Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir as among them.
