‘Goods over humans’: EU condemned for failure to suspend Israel trade deal
Human rights experts, including Erika Guevara Rosas, Amnesty International’s senior director for research and advocacy, have accused the European Union of “knowingly enabling” Israel’s “grave violations” after two EU countries blocked a move to suspend a trade agreement between the trading bloc and Israel.
“The EU’s failure to suspend its Association Agreement with Israel is a damning betrayal of its own values,” Rosas wrote in a post on X after Germany and Italy blocked a move put forward by Spain, Slovenia and Ireland to suspend the deal.
“Given the overwhelming evidence that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, maintained an apartheid system against Palestinians, and unlawfully occupied their territory, inaction becomes a deliberate choice,” Rosas added.
Francesca Albanese, the UN’s special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territory, also condemned the decision.
“Maintaining trade in times of genocide means valuing goods over humans,” she said in a post on X.
“Markets over life,” she added.
Before Germany and Italy stopped the bid on Tuesday, more than 60 human rights organisations, including Amnesty and Human Rights Watch, had called on the EU and member states to suspend the Association Agreement with Israel.
- Shame Within Borders -
Maintaining trade in times of genocide means valuing goods over humans. Markets over life.
This is not policy: it is a system. A clash of values.
It is either equality, freedom, solidarity. Or it is their contrary.
Please choose. https://t.co/be7L68s6uA
— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) April 22, 2026
Europe is fully complicit in the genocide.
Dave McIntosh, a private security contractor who managed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) sites, has blown the whistle on Israeli war crimes at Gaza aid sites, in his first ever sit down interview.
00:00 Gaza whistleblower intro
01:56 Site 4: shooting at aid seekers
03:43 'The infamous Green Light' - Israel's real Squid Game
06:50 'They want to make a frenzy'
10:08 'Gaza is like an apocalypse'
12:59 'Straight up murder' - Israel killed a Palestinian child at aid site
18:55 'Are you complicit?'
The former Royal Marines Commando went to Gaza to help deliver food. What he witnessed was a sadistic ‘field day’ for IDF soldiers, who shot at starving Palestinians desperate for food.
Dave showed Declassified previously unseen videos he filmed while working for the controversial GHF. The videos show a ‘sick’ Red Light, Green Light system, which he says was devised by the Israelis to create a frenzy among the aid seekers.
Four detained for protesting reinstatement of Israeli soldiers accused of assaulting Palestinian detainee
Israeli police have arrested four people who protested outside the Sde Teiman detention facility against the Israeli military reinstating soldiers accused of sexually assaulting a Palestinian inmate in the detention camp.
The five soldiers, all from the Force 100 unit assigned to guard military prisons, were allowed to return to service last week despite an ongoing internal military inquiry into their conduct.
Criminal charges against the soldiers had already been dropped, however. They had been accused of aggravated assault and causing severe injury after footage broadcast by Israeli television showed them abusing a Palestinian man in Sde Teiman.
The military’s own indictment described soldiers stabbing the detainee with a sharp object near his rectum, causing cracked ribs, a punctured lung and an internal tear.
The protesters’ lawyer, Yoni Nussbaum, said the demonstrators are being held at the Beersheba station under suspicion “of endangering human life on a transportation route, obstructing a police officer, unauthorised entry to a military base and disturbing public order”, the Haaretz newspaper reported.
