US slaps sanctions on entities that raised funds for West Bank settlers

A Palestinian woman lifts a placard bearing verses by Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer who was reported killed in Gaza on December 7, as protesters carry a list of Gaza victims during a rally amid a general strike in Ramallah city in the occupied West Bank on December 11, 2023,

The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on two entities that it said helped raise tens of thousands of dollars for two violent extremists in the West Bank already targeted with US sanctions, the Treasury Department announced in a statement.

Washington had previously sanctioned five settlers and two unauthorized outposts in the West Bank in two rounds of sanctions aimed at punishing ill-behaved Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, where Palestinians envisage a future state.