US issues new batch of sanctions targeting West Bank settlers amid rampant violence
Source: The Times of Israel (Jerusalem)
The Biden administration issued its sixth batch of sanctions targeting Israeli settler violence in the West Bank, blacklisting a group that provides volunteer guards for illegal outposts and a civilian security guard for a flashpoint settlement who has allegedly engaged in attacks against Palestinians.
The sanctions against the Hashomer Yosh (Guardians of Judea and Samaria) organization, and against Yitzhak Levi Filant, the chief security officer for the Yitzhar settlement in the northern West Bank, came days after two violent settler rampages through Palestinian towns in the West Bank left a pair of Palestinians dead. No arrests have been made in the most recent attack near Bethlehem.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office issued a statement saying that it “views with great severity” the imposition of sanctions against Israeli citizens, and said the issue was the subject of “deep discussions” with the US.
[Ariel] Kallner, of the ruling Likud party, described Hashomer Yosh as a “pioneering organization” in a social media post defending the group and denounced the sanctions as a “gross violation of Israeli sovereignty. To the US administration: President Biden and Vice President Mrs Harris, to tell us ‘don’t’ after the massacre will not move us. Stop the antisemitic persecution and don’t forget: No power in the world has succeeded and will not succeed in severing the connection between the people of Israel and its land,” Kallner wrote on X.
Read more: https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-issues-new-batch-of-sanctions-targeting-west-bank-settlers-amid-rampant-violence/
There's an article on the same topic at The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/28/us-imposes-sanctions-on-extremist-israeli-settlers-in-west-bank
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