The twenty-seven foreign ministers of the European Union approved new sanctions on Monday on Israeli settlers over rising violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
There has been a surge in attacks by settlers since the start of the Gaza war in October 2023, the UN has recorded.
Settlements - illegal under international law - are built on Israeli-occupied land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, areas Palestinians claim for a future state.
The EU foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said it was "high time we move from deadlock to delivery... extremisms and violence carry consequences."
A change in government in Hungary ended months of delays to the EU's plans for further sanctions, which had been blocked by the former right-wing Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban, a close ally of Israel.
