Overview

• Juristes pour le respect du droit international filed a recours en carence at the Court of Justice of the EU on July 17, accusing the Commission and Council of gross inaction over human rights violations in Gaza.
• The lawsuit alleges passive complicity as EU institutions have continued arms-technology transfers to Israel in breach of the Arms Trade Treaty.
• Despite a late-June EU diplomatic service report documenting Israeli breaches of Article 2 under the EU-Israel Association Agreement, foreign ministers on July 15 opted against sanctions, accepting only promises to facilitate humanitarian aid.
• French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot urged the EU to cease all direct and indirect financial support for West Bank colonization and impose targeted sanctions on extremist settlers, but no consensus was reached.
• Slovenia declared two Israeli hard-right ministers personae non gratae, highlighting growing member-state divergence over enforcing international law in response to the Gaza crisis.