The UK has sanctioned two Israeli government ministers for “inciting violence” and abuses of Palestinian human rights, David Lammy has said. Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s security minister and finance minister respectively, will be subject to a travel ban and asset freeze. The UK is taking the action to ramp up pressure on Israel alongside Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Norway. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00These two individuals, Ben Gavir and Smotryk, have been inciting violence against Palestinian people for months and months and months.
00:12They have been encouraging egregious abuses of human rights.
00:19We have been raising this with the Israeli government, both privately and publicly.
00:24We were raising it before we came to government and indeed the last government raised it as an issue.
00:32And alongside our partners, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Norway, today we are announcing sanctions against those individuals because we have been absolutely clear.
00:47This has to stop and we stand for a two-state solution and the settler violence that we've seen in the West Bank particularly is entirely unacceptable and must stop.
01:01Today we are making a decision also to stand against those who encourage abuses of human rights, also to stand against those who encourage violence against Palestinian people.
01:13There have, just in the last year, been 1,900 attacks against Palestinian people.
01:20We have condemned this. We have made clear that we are opposed to it.
01:24We are acting with allies. When we say something, we mean it.