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The US Treasury Department has issued West Bank-related sanctions targeting five entities and three people, including the extremist Lehava organization, the department announced on Thursday.Alongside them were several Tzav 9 activists who regularly attempted to block truckfuls of aid to Gazan civilians who were also listed in the new additions to the sanctions.According to the Treasury notice, those cited included the nonprofit organization Lehava, several sheep and goat farms, and three individuals. Sanctioned are Reut Ben Haim, Issachar Manne, Aviad Shlomo Sarid, Hamohoch Farm, Lehava, Manne Farm Outpost, Meitarim...

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...