EU Council sanctions four Israeli settler organisations and three individuals under Global Human Rights regime
Sanctions-screening teams must add the seven Israeli-settler designations with director-level linkage checks before next funds-transfer cycle
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On 28 May 2026, the Council of the European Union adopted Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1177 amending Regulation (EU) 2020/1998 to add four extremist-settler entities and three individuals to the Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime.
Why it matters
An asset freeze applies to all listed entities and individuals, including a prohibition on making funds or economic resources available to them directly or indirectly. A travel ban applies to the three named individuals. The Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime now covers 136 natural and legal persons and 41 entities.
Implications
- — EU sanctions-screening teams at banks, payment processors, and corporates with EU touchpoints must add Nachala Settlement Movement, Regavim, Hashomer Yosh, and Amana cooperative association to direct-name filters and freeze accounts of Daniella Weiss, Meir Deutsch, and Avichai Suissa before the next payment-processing cycle — direct-name match-based screening covers transactions hitting these entries by name.
- — EU sanctions-screening teams must run director and officer linkage checks because the source ties each individual to a listed entity by position — Daniella Weiss as Director of Nachala, Meir Deutsch as Director of Regavim, Avichai Suissa as President of Hashomer Yosh — exposure surfaces through individual-organisation overlap even when transactions do not hit both names.
- — Treasury, custody, and account-management teams at EU-domiciled financial institutions must apply the asset freeze across deposits, custody, securities, and credit positions held for the listed parties — making funds or economic resources available directly or indirectly creates strict-liability exposure under Regulation 2020/1998.
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