Claudio Francavilla, Deputy Director of Human Rights Watch and the organization’s representative to EU institutions, called on the European Union, Sunday, not to backtrack on proposed sanctions against Israel following the ceasefire agreement in Gaza.
According to Palestinian media outlets, Francavilla emphasized that any European decision regarding Israel must take into account its grave human rights violations.
He clarified that the proposal to suspend cooperation between the EU and Israel is not solely based on the situation in Gaza, but also on ongoing abuses across all occupied Palestinian territories.
Francavilla criticized the EU’s delayed response, noted that sanctions were only considered two years after what he described as a genocide in Gaza and the killing of 20,000 children a delay he called “horrific.”
