The European Commission Wednesday proposed plans for the European Union to impose harsh sanctions on Israeli officials and suspend a trade arrangement with the country to urge them to change course on the war in Gaza.

While the measures currently do not have enough support from EU member nations to pass, including from Germany which said it wants to keep communication with Israel open, the proposed measures mark a major policy shift for the bloc.

The measures were proposed by Kaja Kallas, the EU’s foreign policy chief, as Israel has launched a major ground operation in Gaza City , causing many of the city’s roughly 1 million Palestinian residents to flee en masse.

“Israel’s ground offensive in Gaza will make an already desperate situation even worse,” said Kallas in a post on X

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