France is to sanction certain extremist Israeli settlers, Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said on Tuesday, denouncing “unacceptable” violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, APA reports citing The Times of Israel.
France “has decided to take measures… against certain extremist Israeli settlers,” Colonna said at a joint press conference with her British counterpart David Cameron after she traveled to Israel and the West Bank.
“I was able to see for myself the violence committed by certain of these extremist settlers. It’s unacceptable,” she said.
Israel has come under increasing pressure from its allies to rein in settler violence, which has soared since the Hamas terror group’s October 7 massacre.
It follows similar decisions recently announced by both the United Kingdom and the United States which have banned extremist Jewish settlers implicated in a rash of recent attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank.
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