UK and allies sanction 'networks' enabling settler violence in West Bank

Mihaela Chircă

The UK, Australia, Canada, France and Norway have imposed sanctions on what they call "networks" involved in financing and enabling attacks against Palestinian civilians by Jewish settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The move is designed to "hold extremist settlers accountable for the horrific levels of settler violence", the five countries said. France also barred far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich from entering the country. He has wide authority over government

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