President Donald Trump on Monday revoked an executive order from his predecessor Joe Biden which had allowed the sanctioning of Israeli settlers accused of violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, the White House announced on Monday.
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Barely invested, the Republican president canceled the text taken in February 2024, and which had been the prerequisite for financial sanctions targeting several settlers, including an individual accused of having fomented a riot in the Palestinian town of Huwara, in the south of Nablus, leading to the death of a Palestinian civilian.
At the time, Joe Biden denounced the “intolerable” violence of Israeli settlers, a “serious threat to peace, security and stability” in the region according to him.
-Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967 and violence has exploded in this Palestinian territory since the start of the war between Israel and the Islamist movement Hamas in Gaza in October 2023.
Faced with the increase in acts of violence committed by armed settlers, several Western countries (United States, European Union, United Kingdom and Canada in particular) have taken sanctions (asset freeze, travel ban) against several settlers described as “extremists”.
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