US Imposes Sanctions on Israeli Settler Group Over Violence Against Palestinians in West Bank
Washington (Quds News Network)- The US Treasury Department announced on Monday it was imposing sanctions on an Israeli settler group accused of “perpetrating violence” against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
The Treasury Department describes the Amana settler group as a “key part of the Israeli extremist settlement movement”.
The department said the group also “maintains ties to various persons previously sanctioned by the US government and its partners for perpetrating violence in the West Bank”.
The sanctions will also target one of Amana’s subsidiaries, Binyanei Bar Amana, which the US said is a company that builds and sells homes in Israeli settlements and settler outposts.
Last month, the UK imposed sanctions on Amana.
The Biden administration also announced sanctions on several individual Israeli settlers: Itamar Yehuda Levi; Eyal Hari; Shabtai Koshlevsky; and Zohar Sabah.
Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are illegal under international law. However, Israel has continued to build settlements across the occupied territory over the past several decades.
In recent months, the Biden administration has announced several rounds of sanctions targeting individual Israeli settlers and settler organizations operating in the West Bank. All of the sanctions have been tied to settler violence against Palestinians living in the West Bank.
Israeli settler violence against Palestinians has been on the rise for several years now. Since Israel began its war on Gaza last October, the attacks in the occupied West Bank have spiked even more.
In Pictures: Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian vehicles in the village of al-Mazraa al-Gharbiya in the occupied West Bank.
There has been a surge in Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since the start of Israel’s assault on Gaza. pic.twitter.com/ZLXdSxwZKl
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Since October 2023, there had been 1,000 settler attacks against Palestinians, a report issued last month by the International Crisis Group found.
