🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇮🇱 U.S. imposes visa ban on Israeli settlers who attacked Palestinians

🔶️ It is the first time the U.S. is sanctioning extremist settlers since the Clinton administration, the officials said.

🔶️ The U.S. has "consistently opposed actions that undermine stability in the West Bank, including attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians, and Palestinian attacks against Israelis," Blinken said.

🔶️ "We have underscored to the Israeli government the need to do more to hold accountable extremist settlers who have committed violent attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank," he added.

🔶️ U.S. officials said the administration decided to impose sanctions against Israeli settlers because it concluded that the current Israeli government is not seriously attempting to stop and prevent the attacks against Palestinians.

https://www.axios.com/2023/12/05/us-israeli-settler-west-bank-visa-ban-plan

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🇺🇳🇮🇱🇵🇸❗️ — For the first time ever, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres invokes the Article 99 of the UN Charter, which means that the UN SG wants to bring attention of the Security Council an urgent matter which in his opinion threatens the maintenance of international peace and security!

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— Consequences of humanitarian collapse in Gaza could have irreversible impact on Palestinians and the whole peace & security of the region warned António Guterres, invoking Article 99 of the UN Charter for the first time in office said UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric

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