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UK, France and other Western nations issue new sanctions on Israeli settlers in the West Bank
The governments said the measures will freeze assets and bar travel to disrupt financing behind settler violence and settlement expansion.
- On Tuesday, Britain unveiled sanctions against networks accused of enabling West Bank settler violence, coordinating with France, Norway, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia to disrupt financial flows.
- The measures target entities including the Farms Association and Ari Artzenu, which the government said "promotes, finances and resources settler farms and outposts associated with violence against Palestinians."
- Significantly, the government will "explicitly advise businesses against economic and financial activity in illegal settlements" for the first time, disrupting funding for extremist groups.
- British Foreign Minister Yvette Cooper told Parliament that "settler expansion and violence is illegal and a fundamental threat" to a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians.
- These measures fall short of a call by more than 230 MPs for a full import ban on settlement goods, though ministers privately accept such bans align with the British position.
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Several Western countries announced on Tuesday 9 June new sanctions against Israeli entities and individuals involved in the violence and illegal expansion of settlements in the occupied West Bank. France banned entry into its territory to the far-right finance minister, Bezall Smotrich, who promotes the annexation of the West Bank. On the ground, the settlers acted with impunity. In the Jordan Valley, Palestinians were forced to leave their vil…
·Paris, France
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UK, Canada, France, Norway Sanction Israeli Settlers Over West Bank Violence
A joint statement by foreign ministers from the four countries as well as Australia said the steps aimed to "hold extremist settlers accountable for the horrific levels of settler violence against Palestinian civilians".
·New Delhi, India
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