The UK will join Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and other countries in sanctioning National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich over comments about Gaza, The Times of London reports.
The UK outlet reports that the countries will freeze the assets of the two far-right ministers and impose travel bans.
In May, British Foreign Minister David Lammy announced that the United Kingdom was suspending free trade agreement negotiations with Israel and taking other punitive measures, including the imposition of sanctions on some West Bank settlers, in response to Israel’s wartime policies during its conflict with Hamas in Gaza.
seen during a vote at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
The UK will join Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and other countries in sanctioning National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich over comments about Gaza, The Times of London reports.
The UK outlet reports that the countries will freeze the assets of the two far-right ministers and impose travel bans.
In May, British Foreign Minister David Lammy announced that the United Kingdom was suspending free trade agreement negotiations with Israel and taking other punitive measures, including the imposition of sanctions on some West Bank settlers, in response to Israel’s wartime policies during its conflict with Hamas in Gaza.
Speaking to parliament, Lammy accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of “planning to drive Gazans from their homes into a corner of the Strip to the south and permit them a fraction of the aid that they need.”
“Minister Smotrich even spoke of Israeli forces ‘cleansing’ Gaza, ‘destroying what’s left,’ of resident Palestinians ‘being relocated to third countries,'” Lammy said. “We must call this what it is. It is extremism. It is dangerous. It is repellent. It is monstrous. And I condemn it in the strongest possible terms.”
Source : https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/report-uk-to-impose-sanctions-on-smotrich-ben-gvir-over-comments-on-gaza/
Thank you , thank you from the bottom of my heart .
President Biden threatned to but never had the chance to implement it .
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