{"id":10385,"date":"2025-04-11T09:12:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T09:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/10385\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T09:12:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T09:12:19","slug":"eu-must-condemn-hungary-for-icc-exit-palestinian-oscar-winning-director-says-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/10385\/","title":{"rendered":"EU must condemn Hungary for ICC exit, Palestinian Oscar-winning director says \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far, Brussels <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/press\/press-releases\/2024\/07\/15\/extremist-israeli-settlers-in-the-occupied-west-bank-and-east-jerusalem-as-well-as-violent-activists-blocking-humanitarian-aid-to-gaza-five-individuals-and-three-entities-sanctioned-under-the-eu-global-human-rights-sanctions-regime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has approved<\/a> limited sanctions against extremist Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. But it has resisted <a href=\"https:\/\/left.eu\/eu-must-expand-sanctions-on-israeli-settlers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">calls<\/a> for more restrictive measures or suspending trade ties with Israel following the launch of its war on Gaza in 2023 after Hamas militants attacked Israel and took hostages to the coastal enclave.<\/p>\n<p>Adra, whose documentary tells the story of Israeli demolitions of his native rural community of Masafer Yatta in the West Bank, argues the EU should \u201cat the minimum recognize now the state of Palestine\u201d but also sanction \u201call settlers [who] are violating international law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The filmmaker, whose co-director <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2025\/03\/27\/middleeast\/ballal-palestinian-oscar-settler-assault-interview-intl-cmd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was assaulted<\/a> by settlers after the documentary\u2019s release, laments that \u201cnothing has changed\u201d in practical terms for the local community since it came out and that attacks by settlers have stepped up since Israel began its full-scale assault on Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission spokesperson reiterated the institution\u2019s \u201cstrong opposition to Israel\u2019s settlement policy,\u201d arguing that \u201cadditional [sanctions] are under discussion currently\u201d with EU countries.<\/p>\n<p>Despite that, Adra said he still retains hope, driven by the prospect of protecting his local community.\u00a0\u201cWe are living in the worst period for Palestine,\u201d he said, but \u201cwe don\u2019t have another land.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s my responsibility to stay on the land,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So far, Brussels has approved limited sanctions against extremist Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and East&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[6505,30,31,32,2000,299,5187,2190,837,1815,7163,839,1814,2663,1201,49,1781,771],"class_list":{"0":"post-10385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","9":"tag-courts","10":"tag-democracy","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-hungary","16":"tag-israel","17":"tag-israel-hamas-war","18":"tag-israeli-palestinian-conflict","19":"tag-middle-east","20":"tag-palestine","21":"tag-sanctions","22":"tag-trade","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-viktor-orban","25":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114318563672091381","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}