WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Joe Biden ordered strict sanctions on four Israeli West Bank settlers for alleged violence against Palestinians and Israeli peace activists.
Biden’s executive order Thursday represented an escalation of the diplomacy and pressure he has exerted on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to rein in extremists. A White House statement framed the action as a parallel to the multiple sanctions Biden has levied against officials of Hamas, the terror group that launched the war with a wave of massacres in Israel on Oct. 7.
“Since October 7,…
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