Author: JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press, ABC News
Published on: 10/06/2025 | 13:18:52
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Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich face asset freezes and travel bans from the five countries. The decision by Western governments friendly to Israel was a sharp rebuke of Israel’s settlement policies in the West Bank and of settler violence. Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar called the move “outrageous” He said he had discussed it with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Biden administration took the rare step of sanctioning radical Israeli settlers implicated in violence in the occupied West Bank. “It means the wall of immunity that Israeli politicians had been broken,” Eitay Mack said.
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