EU lays out new sanctions on Israel over Gaza war

BRUSSELS—The European Union on Wednesday laid out its toughest plan yet to pressure Israel to end the war in Gaza as Palestinians fled en masse from Israeli tanks, drones and troops pushing deeper into the coastal enclave ravaged by 23 months of war.

Kaja Kallas, the EU’s foreign policy chief, urged the 27 member nations to increase tariffs on some Israeli goods and impose sanctions on Israeli settlers, and two members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet—National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.

She also proposed sanctioning 10 Hamas leaders. “We are proposing these measures not to punish Israel or Israel people, but to really try to pressure [the] Israeli government to change course and to end the human suffering in Gaza,” Kallas said in Brussels.