Biden admin sanctions Israeli West Bank settlement organization
The Biden administration on Monday imposed sanctions on Israel바카라 게임 웹사이트s largest settlement development organization as part of the latest U.S. actions targeting those fomenting instability in the occupied West Bank.
The administration has issued a number of rounds of sanctions after President Joe Biden issued an executive order in February allowing sanctions on those undermining 바카라 게임 웹사이트peace, security, and stability in the West Bank.바카라 게임 웹사이트 The latest action comes amid a push from Democrats for Biden to act in his final months in office to impose sanctions on two far-right Israeli ministers 바카라 게임 웹사이트 Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir 바카라 게임 웹사이트 for their roles in inciting settler violence in the West Bank and as frustration grows from within Biden바카라 게임 웹사이트s own party about his administration바카라 게임 웹사이트s seeming unwillingness to penalize the Israeli government.
President-elect Donald Trump is unlikely to take any punitive actions against Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank 바카라 게임 웹사이트 instead, his policies are likely to embrace them. His pick for U.S. Ambassador to Israel, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, is staunchly pro-Israel and has voiced support for Israeli occupation in the Palestinian territory.
The sanctions from the U.S. Treasury Department Monday hit Amana, 바카라 게임 웹사이트the largest organization involved in settlement and illegal outpost development in the West Bank바카라 게임 웹사이트 that has 바카라 게임 웹사이트established dozens of illegal settler outposts and directly engaged in dispossession of private land owned by Palestinians in its support of settlers,바카라 게임 웹사이트 according to the State Department.
The organization 바카라 게임 웹사이트maintains ties to various persons previously sanctioned by the U.S. government and its partners for perpetrating violence in the West Bank,바카라 게임 웹사이트 the Treasury Department said in a press release. The Treasury Department also sanctioned Amana바카라 게임 웹사이트s subsidiary Binyanei Bar Amana Ltd., 바카라 게임 웹사이트a construction and development company that builds and sells homes in settlements and outposts in the West Bank.바카라 게임 웹사이트
In a concurrent action, the U.S. State Department imposed sanctions on three companies and three people 바카라 게임 웹사이트for their roles in violence targeting civilians or in the destruction or dispossession of property.바카라 게임 웹사이트
A group of nearly 90 congressional Democrats urged Biden in a late October letter to impose sanctions on Smotrich and Ben Gvir. They publicly released the letter last week in order to increase pressure on the administration.
The letter had also pushed for sanctions on Amana, which was sanctioned Monday.