JERUSALEM: Israel on Tuesday urged European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to withdraw a proposal that would curb trade ties in a bid to pressure Israel to end the war in Gaza. “Pressure through sanctions will not work,” Foreign Minister Gideon Saar wrote in a letter to Von der Leyen. The initiative, announced during her State of the Union speech last week, is due to be discussed Wednesday by the European Commission’s College of Commissioners, which she chairs.

JERUSALEM: Israel on Tuesday urged European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to withdraw a proposal that would curb trade ties in a bid to pressure Israel to end the war…

In Reaktion auf die Entwicklungen im Gazastreifen schlägt die Europäische Kommission den EU-Staaten das Verhängen weitreichender Sanktionen gegen Israel vor. Nach dem Willen der…