German Lawmakers Urge EU to Sanction Ben-Gvir Over Call to Kill 30-40 Gazans Nightly
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Updated · POLITICO Europe · Aug 18
German Lawmakers Urge EU to Sanction Ben-Gvir Over Call to Kill 30-40 Gazans Nightly
3 articles · Updated · POLITICO Europe · Aug 18
Summary
Senior lawmakers from Germany’s conservatives and Social Democrats pressed the EU to sanction Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir after remarks advocating regular killings in Gaza.
Ben-Gvir, in a podcast released Saturday, said Israel should "remove 30, 40" people every night and added that some Gazans were "not worthy of life" and "not even people."
The comments triggered an unusually sharp backlash from Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservative camp, highlighting rare public criticism from a key European ally of Israel.
The push for EU sanctions elevates the dispute from political condemnation to a call for concrete punitive action against a sitting Israeli minister.