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Belgium's federal government approved a series of measures at its final meeting before the summer recess, including an import ban on goods originating from the occupied Palestinian territories, Belga News Agency reported.
The import ban was part of an agreement reached by the government at the end of last summer in response to Israel's military offensive in Gaza and the mounting civilian death toll.
Details on how the ban will be implemented have yet to be finalized, according to Belga.
The move comes as Israel continues to violate a ceasefire agreement that has been in effect since Oct. 10, 2025.
According to Gaza's Health Ministry, Israeli ceasefire violations have killed more than 1,100 Palestinians and injured over 3,600 others.
The ministry says Israel's military campaign in Gaza since October 2023 has killed more than 73,000 Palestinians and wounded over 173,000, while causing widespread destruction to about 90% of the enclave's civilian infrastructure.
The Palestinian Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission warned Friday that Israel is advancing new illegal settlement plans in the occupied West Bank involving the construction of 1,024 settlement units on more than 1,069 dunams, or 1,264 acres, of Palestinian land.
The commission said Israeli authorities are accelerating settlement expansion through projects aimed at "entrenching de facto annexation and expanding settlements" across the occupied territory.
It said Israel's Higher Planning Council, operating under the Civil Administration, has discussed nine settlement plans since the beginning of July that have entered the approval and deposit stages.
The plans include 1,024 new settlement units, with 455 units approved and 569 deposited for additional planning procedures.
The commission said the projects are part of "a systematic policy" to strengthen settlement blocs in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, through horizontal expansion and increased housing density to accommodate more settlers.
It said Israel is increasingly focusing on expanding existing settlements rather than establishing new ones by amending construction plans, land-use regulations and zoning to increase settlement density.
Among the projects, Israeli authorities approved a plan to expand the Mevo Dotan settlement, built on land belonging to the town of Arraba in southern Jenin, by adding 455 settlement units on nearly 539 dunams.
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The commission said two additional plans have been submitted to expand the Beit Hagai and Asael settlements in the southern West Bank governorate of Hebron, adding 569 settlement units on over 519 dunams.
It said settlement planning has become "an integrated system" to reshape Palestinian geography by expanding settlements and linking them to Israeli infrastructure while restricting Palestinian urban development.
The commission described the policy as a means of consolidating Israel's "de facto annexation" of occupied Palestinian land.
The United Nations has repeatedly affirmed that Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territories are illegal under international law, warning that they undermine prospects for a two-state solution.
Palestinians seek East Jerusalem as the capital of their future state, citing international resolutions that do not recognize Israel's 1967 occupation of the city or its annexation in 1980.
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