EU’s Borrell: Consider Sanctions on Ben Gvir, Smotrich for ‘Incitement to War Crimes’

Foreign policy chief blasts ministers’ recent remarks backing the cutting of supplies to Gaza as a pressure tactic on Hamas, urges Jerusalem to distance itself from them

The European Union foreign policy chief said Sunday the bloc should consider sanctioning far-right Israeli ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich for comments he said constitute “incitement to war crimes.”

Writing on X, Josep Borrell condemned Ben Gvir, the national security minister, for once again urging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to cut all aid and fuel to the Gaza Strip.

He also slammed the “sinister statements” of Smotrich, who is finance minister and a minister in the Defense Ministry, and said he supported UN rights chief Volker Turk in his condemnations. Smotrich recently remarked that starving two million Gazans by withholding aid — in order to get the Hamas hostages back — might be “justified and moral.” Turk condemned the comments and said they should be investigated and punished if found to be a crime.

Smotrich later told Kan news his comments had been misunderstood. “What I said is that we must allow in humanitarian aid because no one will let us starve Gazans, but what I also said is that morally we must condition [the entry of] humanitarian aid on a humanitarian [concession] and tell Hamas, the Gazans and the world that we allow aid in under the condition that they return our hostages,” Smotrich said.

“The hostages are languishing in the tunnels and we pamper the Gaza Strip [with aid]. In my eyes, this is immoral and unjust,” he added.
[he's saying to starve the entire Gazan population in collective punishment]

🔗SOURCE ➡️ Times of Israel

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