While an EU-Israel Association Council could be held in late February in Brussels, 252 MEPs and national MPs have called on the EU Council, in a letter published on Thursday 23 January, to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement and on EU Member States to respect their obligation to “refrain from assisting in maintaining the illegal situation, arising from Israel’s violations of peremptory norms, including by stopping trade with Israeli settlements and halting the provision of military equipment”.
The elected representatives also called on the European Commission to review the Association Agreement, “considering Israel’s apparent breaches of international humanitarian law and international human rights law”, and to propose adequate measures to the Council in the field of its competency.
In their view, the Commission must also ensure that “its diplomatic, trade and cooperation agreements and relationships with Israel are not linked to the unlawful occupation and associated violations, including grave breaches, war crimes, crimes against humanity and possible acts of genocide”.
See the letter: https://aeur.eu/f/f6j (Original version in French by Camille-Cerise Gessant)