France bans Israeli minister Smotrich in coordinated sanctions push

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France bans Israeli minister Smotrich in coordinated sanctions push

France Tuesday banned Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich from entering the country, the French foreign minister said, as part of coordinated sanctions with other countries over settler violence against Palestinians.France’s sanctions were in coordination with Britain, Canada, Australia, Norway and New Zealand targeting “those responsible for the escalation of settlement activity and violence in the West Bank,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on X.For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app.He said Smotrich “actively promotes the annexation of the West Bank, which he openly claims, the creation of new settlements in the West Bank, the re-colonization of Gaza, the economic collapse of the Palestinian Authority and its harmful consequences for the Palestinian population.”“This is a policy that the overwhelming majority of the international community, firmly committed to the two-state solution, cannot accept,” Barrot

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