The EU must align its trade policies with international law by banning all trade with Israeli settlements.

The European Union’s foreign ministers are set to meet on July 13th to discuss the urgent need to ban trade with Israeli settlements in the West Bank. This follows the International Court of Justice’s advisory opinion, which emphasized the obligation to prevent trade that supports these illegal settlements.

Despite the EU’s condemnation of Israel’s occupation, current policies have proven ineffective. A unified, bloc-wide ban on goods and services from these settlements is essential to uphold the EU’s founding principles and human rights commitments.