Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway and the United Kingdom will formally sanction far-right Israeli ministers, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, for “incitement of violence” against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, their foreign ministers said in a joint statement.
Israel’s national security minister, Ben-Gvir, who has previously been convicted in Israel of incitement to racism and supporting a “terror” organisation, and Minister of Finance Smotrich will now face freezes on their assets and travel bans from the five countries following the announcement on Tuesday.
