The European Union reached a unanimous political agreement on Monday (May 11, 2026) to issue new sanctions on Hamas leaders and the Israeli settler movement, top European diplomats said, after years of deadlock and growing popular pressure sparked by the carnage in Gaza.

The EU’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said in a social media post after a meeting in Brussels on Monday of the 27-nation bloc‘s Foreign Ministers that extremism and violence should carry consequences.