{"id":36069,"date":"2026-05-13T23:10:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T21:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/palestine-welcomes-eu-sanctions-against-israeli-extremist-occupiers-for-violence-in-the-west-bank\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T23:10:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T21:10:33","slug":"palestine-welcomes-eu-sanctions-against-israeli-extremist-occupiers-for-violence-in-the-west-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/palestine-welcomes-eu-sanctions-against-israeli-extremist-occupiers-for-violence-in-the-west-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestine welcomes EU sanctions against Israeli &#8220;extremist&#8221; occupiers for violence in the West Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/thumbs_b_c_98192740a49154caa1a18af3d9345bdf.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>Palestine welcomed a European Union decision to sanction &#8220;extremist&#8221; Israeli occupation organizations and individuals involved in illegal settlement activities and violence against Palestinians, reports Anadolu.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an important step towards accountability and respect for international law,&#8221; Foreign Minister Varsen Aghabekian Shahin wrote on US social media company X.<\/p>\n<p>She called for &#8220;concrete measures&#8221; to address Israeli settlement activity and attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, EU foreign ministers agreed to a new round of sanctions targeting Israeli occupiers and organizations accused of supporting illegal settlement activity in the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n<p>The occupied West Bank has faced escalating violence since Israel&#8217;s war on the Gaza Strip began in October 2023, including killings, arrests, house destruction and settlement expansion, according to Palestinian officials.<\/p>\n<p>At least 1,155 Palestinians have since been killed, about 11,750 injured and nearly 22,000 others arrested in the occupied West Bank, according to official Palestinian figures.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palestine welcomed a European Union decision to sanction &#8220;extremist&#8221; Israeli occupation organizations and individuals involved in illegal settlement activities and violence against Palestinians, reports Anadolu. &#8220;This is an important step towards accountability and respect for international law,&#8221; Foreign Minister Varsen Aghabekian Shahin wrote on US social media company X. She called for &#8220;concrete measures&#8221; to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-36069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-brief"],"views":2,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36071,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36069\/revisions\/36071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}