On Friday 12 April, the Council of the EU decided to add three entities to the list of the EU’s global human rights sanctions regime, “in view of their responsibilities in the brutal and indiscriminate terrorist attacks that occurred across Israel on 7 October 2023”. These are the Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a terrorist organisation subject to EU restrictive measures, the Nukhba Force, a Hamas special forces unit, and the Qassam Brigades, the...