Amnesty International | 15 April 2026
Suspend EU-Israel trade agreement
Israel is committing heinous violations of international law against Palestinians and in Lebanon with impunity, and has just adopted a death penalty law targeting Palestinians. The European Union (EU) is Israel’s biggest trading partner, and must take concrete action. Italy and Germany can sway the decision to suspend the EU-Israel trade agreement. Send a message and demand Giorgia Meloni and Friedrich Merz stop greenlighting Israel’s genocide, unlawful occupation and apartheid.
What’s the problem?
The EU can and must use its financial leverage to end Israel’s violations of international law.
Israel continues its genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip, its unlawful occupation of the whole Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), and apartheid against all Palestinians whose rights it controls. It has now adopted a death penalty law which will in practice apply exclusively to Palestinians.
In Lebanon, Israeli forces have killed and wounded hundreds of people in a coordinated wave of strikes, displaced hundreds of thousands, killed and injured healthcare workers and attacked medical facilities.
Under the EU-Israel trade agreement, Israel must uphold human rights obligations. The EU found Israel to be in breach of the human rights clause of the agreement in June 2025. There is a clear obligation to suspend the trade agreement.
The EU’s 27 member states must now decide whether to suspend their trade agreement with Israel. Both Germany and Italy have the power to sway the decision by supporting the suspension.
The EU is currently risking complicity in Israel’s continued violations against the Palestinian and Lebanese people.
Millions of people around the world are demanding that their leaders act to stop Israel’s violations. Humanity must win.
What you can do to help
Send a message and demand the leaders of Germany and Italy support suspending the EU’s trade agreement with Israel. There is no time to lose.
