On September 17, local time, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Karas, announced a series of sanctions against Israel, including the partial suspension of issues related to trade in the EU-Israel Association Agreement.

Karas announces a series of sanctions against Israel (data map)

According to information published on the website of the European Commission, the Commission proposes to suspend some of the aid programs to Israel, which will affect the annual allocations between 2025 and 2027, and allocations to Israeli civilians and Israeli Holocaust Memorial are not covered by the sanctions.

From 2021 to 2027, the EU provided aid to Israel through the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument ¨C Global Europe (NDICI-GE).

In addition to the suspension of allocations of €6 million annually, the European Commission has also proposed the suspension of ongoing institutional cooperation projects with Israel and projects under EU-Israel regional cooperation, equivalent to the suspension of allocations of €14 million.

Two far-right ministers in Israel¡¯s cabinet ¨C National Security Minister Ben-Gevre and Treasury Minister Smotrich ¨C will be added to the EU¡¯s sanctions list along with violent settlers on the West Bank and 10 members of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).

According to the European Commission, the current actions of the Israeli government in the Gaza Strip violate clauses relating to human rights and democracy in the EU-Israel Partnership Agreement, so the EU has the right to unilaterally suspend the implementation of parts of the agreement.

But in the announcement of the European Commission¡¯s sanctions proposal, Kallas also pointed out that the European Commission¡¯s purpose is not to punish Israel, but to change the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, and the EU will not suspend trade with Israel.

The EU is Israel¡¯s largest trading partner. By 2024, Israel¡¯s commodity trade with the EU amounted to €42.6 billion. The EU mainly exports machinery and transportation equipment, chemicals and manufacturing products to Israel.

The European Commission¡¯s sanctions scheme against Israel needs to be approved by all EU member states and will come into effect 30 days after it has been approved. EU member states disagree on whether or not sanctions against Israel in the Gaza conflict, Spain and other countries have repeatedly called for the EU to implement sanctions, but Germany and other countries have been opposed. On the 17th, German government spokesman Cornelius responded that the European Commission had submitted a sanctions scheme to the German government, but the German government has not yet made a decision on this.

The United Nations Independent Investigation Committee released a report earlier this month accusing Israel of committing genocide crimes against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, urging the international community to suspend arms shipments to Israel and impose sanctions on individuals and entities who carry out genocide in Gaza.

At the moment, Israel has launched a ground attack on Gaza¡¯s largest city, Gaza City.According to Central Television News News, communications and internet in large parts of Gaza City have been disrupted, and Israeli military operations are expected to continue for months.

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Israel identified as carrying out "genocide" in Gaza, many countries seek to expel them from the UN

As the Middle East war broke out, the struggle on another diplomatic occasion also smoked fire.

The Israeli military launched a ground offensive on Gaza on the night of the 15th, when the belts of the Mekkah tanks pressed over the walls of the city, the fate of millions of Palestinians has come to its most critical moment.

Israeli tanks enter Gaza City

tanks into the city.

According to several Palestinian media reports, the Israeli Defense Forces intensified airstrikes and shelling on Gaza City in the north of the Gaza Strip from the evening to the early morning of the 15th.

There are U.S. media citing military sources reports that after visiting Israel U.S. Secretary of State Rubio reiterated U.S. support, the Israeli side has officially started a ground military offensive on Gaza City.

According to Israeli media reports, the Israeli military launched a ground attack on Gaza City on the night of the 15th.

According to previous reports, the Israeli military will gradually advance deeper into the city, including into areas that have not been completely cleared from Hamas military facilities.

In this regard, some analysts believe Netanyahu¡¯s plan is: ethnic cleansing the largest center of the city, then demolishing the rest, and concentrating the survivors in a refugee camp in Rafah, then deporting them to the Sinai region or elsewhere in Egypt.

Palestinians fleeing their homes

The Genocide

In order to force people to migrate and leave their homelands, the Israeli army disrupted electricity in the Gaza Strip many years ago, and even destroyed water purification plants everywhere, which also resulted in the current population of 2.3 million in the Gaza Strip, only one-tenth of the population can get a daily portion, but only enough to maintain the water needed for basic life, the remaining people can only rely on the weather or rivers, from which to get water to live.

On September 16, the UN Independent International Investigation Committee on the Occupied Palestinian Territories (including East Jerusalem) released a report concluding that Israel committed genocide crimes against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

It violates four of the five acts of genocide defined in the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, namely, killing, causing serious physical and mental harm, deliberately causing measures aimed at destroying the living conditions of Palestinians in whole or in part, and implementing measures to prevent childbirth.

Their intention is to completely or partially destroy the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

UN condemns Israel for genocide

Expulsion from the United Nations

Just as U.S. Secretary of State Rubio expressed his ¡°unwavering support¡± to Israel in Gaza, in Doha, Qatar¡¯s capital, an Arab-Islamic emergency summit was also quietly held.

The post-session communiqué called on the member states of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation to review whether Israel¡¯s membership in the United Nations complies with the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations, and the need to coordinate efforts to promote the suspension of Israel¡¯s membership in the United Nations.

Finally, when they realized that one day a bomb would actually fall from the sky, they began to unite.

According to the Charter of the United Nations, a proposal may be submitted by the members of the Security Council, approved by the five permanent members and received at least nine votes in favour.

Given the U.S. attitude, this path is clearly not going.

Another way is through the General Assembly. The proposal must be formally submitted by at least one member state, and the General Affairs Committee of the General Assembly is responsible for reviewing the agenda. In the voting procedure, the matter is classified as an "important issue" to be dealt with by the General Assembly and requires a two-thirds majority of the members who are present and participate in voting.

There are 197 countries in the world, of which 193 sovereign states are members of the United Nations.

In history, only two countries have openly broken down the UN Charter: one was Libya when Gaddafi was in power, and the other is now Israel.

Today, at the level of the United Nations, more and more countries are showing support for justice: in a word, ¡°against abuse.¡±

Maybe Netanyahu is completely wrong now, but sooner or later, he or the future ruler of Israel will be increasingly concerned with the amount of the word.