Several Western governments sanction two far-right Israeli ministers

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Several Western governments sanction two far-right Israeli ministers  Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Norway said Tuesday they have imposed sanctions on National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich for allegedly “inciting extremist violence” against Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.  READ MORE : http://www.africanews.com/2025/06/11/several-western-governments-sanction-two-far-right-israeli-ministers  Subscribe on our Dailymotion channel and receive all the latest news from the continent.    Africanews is available in English and French.  Website : www.africanews.com  Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/africanews.channel/  Twitter : https://twitter.com/africanews

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00:01Several Western governments sanctioned two Israeli government ministers on Tuesday.

00:07The reason? National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich

00:14were allegedly inciting extremist violence against Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

00:21Well, these two individuals, Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, have been inciting violence against Palestinian people for months and months and months.

00:36They have been encouraging egregious abuses of human rights.

00:42We have been raising this with the Israeli government both privately and publicly.

00:47We were raising it before we came to government and indeed the last government raised it as an issue.

00:55And alongside our partners, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Norway,

01:01today we are announcing sanctions against those individuals because we have been absolutely clear.

01:11This has to stop and we stand for a two-state solution.

01:15Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Norway jointly sanctioned the two Israeli ministers

01:21in a move that is seen as a sharp rebuke of Israeli settler violence in the West Bank.

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