BRUSSELS -- The European Union (EU) members on Monday agreed on new sanctions on Israeli settlers over violence against Palestinians, after a months-long deadlock, according to a top EU diplomat.

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on social media platform X that foreign ministers of EU members had approved the move. The decision comes amid rising settler violence and settlement expansion in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. "It was high time we move from deadlock to delivery," Kallas said.