00:00We also share the analysis that the continued expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank
00:06is utterly unacceptable, and the violence used to achieve this expansion is abhorrent.
00:13So we have already agreed on sanctions against extremist Israeli settlers and Hamas figures,
00:19and the Commission will soon present, as you know, an options paper.
00:25We have, this should also be mentioned, ten months ago proposed to suspend trade preferences
00:32under the EU-Israeli Association Agreement.
00:35This is ten months ago.
00:36This would have a significant economic impact, but this proposal remains on the table of the member states
00:44to vote with a qualified majority, so the ball is in the court of the member states.
00:49It's ten months ago that we have done this proposal.
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