Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“The United States on Wednesday announced new sanctions on Israeli [squatters] in the West Bank over violence against Palestinians, urging its ally Israel to bring greater accountability. The sanctions were announced on the same day that Israel launched a wide-scale attack in the West Bank that it said killed nine Palestinian fighters, despite warnings by President Joe Biden’s administration against expanding the war in Gaza. … The latest sanction targets included Hashomer Yosh, an Israeli group that has supported the unauthorised [squatter] outpost of Meitarim Farm in the south Hebron Hills. Volunteers from the group earlier this year fenced off a village whose 250 Palestinian residents had all been forced to leave, the State Department said.” (08/28/24)