Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp resigned on Friday after failing to push through sanctions on Israel during a Cabinet meeting.

“I see that I am insufficiently able to take meaningful additional measures to increase pressure on Israel,” he was cited as saying by Dutch news agency ANP , following a Cabinet debate that ended in stalemate.

On Thursday, Veldkamp said that he lacked confidence in his ability in the coming weeks and months to implement additional policies against Israel, after having declared Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich persona non grata in the Netherlands on July 28.

“I feel constrained in setting the course I consider necessary as foreign minister,” AFP quoted him as saying.

The report added that Veldkamp encountered “resistance” in s

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