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The European Union announced new sanctions on Friday against four people and two entities that it said were "responsible for serious human rights abuses against Palestinians."The abuses include "torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" and "the violation of right to property and to private and family life of Palestinians in the West Bank,"  the Council of the EU said in a statement.The listed entities are Lehava, the Jewish extremist group known for campaigns against Jewish-Arab relationships, and what a statement referred to as "Hilltop Youth,"...

Britain imposed sanctions on four Israeli individuals on Monday, saying they "threatened and perpetrated acts of aggression and violence" against Palestinians in the West Bank.The measures were taken under Britain's Global Human Rights sanctions regime, a government notice showed.Violence in the West Bank reached record levels in 2023. Israel's failure to act has led to an environment of near total impunity for settler extremists in the West Bank. The sanctions will set financial and travel restrictions in an attempt to tackle increasing violence and threats to instability in life...

The US recently signed on a special presidential order against four Israeli settlers involved in violence against Palestinians in the West Bank: Shalom Zicherman, Yinon Levi, David Chai Chasdai, and Einan Tanjile. According to the order, the four were involved in arson that led to harm to human life, threats against Palestinian farmers who abandoned their homes, and physical harm to Palestinians.The order is considered unusually severe and is mainly given to exclusively to terrorists in times of war or to impede their economic activities. This blacklist, which is...

Bank Leumi informed Yinon Levi, one of the four Israelis recently sanctioned by the US, that his accounts at the bank had been frozen on Sunday, according to KAN news.Levi has two accounts at Bank Leumi: a personal one and a business one. On Thursday, the US State Department announced that four Israelis had been sanctioned under an executive order by US President Joe Biden for violence against Palestinians and pro-Palestinian activists in the West Bank. What is Levi accused of?According to the State Department, Levi led a group of...

NEW YORK - The State Department released the names of four individuals who will be sanctioned under President Joe Biden's executive order issued Thursday aiming to quell violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. "The United States has consistently opposed actions that undermine stability in the West Bank and the prospects of peace and security for Israelis and Palestinians alike. This includes attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians and Palestinian attacks against Israelis," according to the State Department."There is no justification for extremist violence against civilians, whatever their national origin,...

The UK Foreign Ministry will ban "those responsible for settler violence" from entering the country, Foreign Minister David Cameron said in a post to X on Thursday. "Extremist settlers, by targeting and killing Palestinian civilians, are undermining security and stability for both Israelis and Palestinians," Cameron said. "Our country cannot be a home for people who commit these intimidating acts." Extremist settlers, by targeting and killing Palestinian civilians, are undermining security and stability for both Israelis and Palestinians. Israel must take stronger action to stop settler violence and hold the perpetrators...