With our British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, and Norwegian partners, we are today imposing new sanctions against those responsible for intensifying colonization and violence in the West Bank.
At the national level, we have banned from our territory Minister Bezalel Smotrich, four leaders of settler organizations, and twenty-one violent settlers.
Bezalel Smotrich actively promotes the annexation of the West Bank, which he openly claims, the creation of new settlements in the West Bank, the recolonization of Gaza, the economic collapse of the Palestinian Authority, and its deleterious consequences on the Palestinian population: this is a policy that the overwhelming majority of the international community cannot accept, firmly committed to the two-State solution.
: Jean-Noël Barrot
Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France