It’s done!
The European Union is sanctioning today the main Israeli organizations guilty of supporting the extremist and violent colonization of the West Bank, as well as their leaders. These most serious and intolerable acts must cease without delay.
It is sanctioning the main leaders of Hamas, responsible for the worst antisemitic massacre in our history since the Shoah during which 51 French people lost their lives, a terrorist movement that must imperatively be disarmed and excluded from any participation in the future of Palestine.
The hope that France revived last year in New York, that of two recognized and respected States living side by side in peace and security, we will let no one undermine it.
: Jean-Noël Barrot
Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France