UK places sanctions on Israeli settlers for ‘forcing’ Palestinians from their land

A Palestinian boy films vehicles torched in an attack by settlers in Hawara, near the West Bank city of Nablus, last year. Photograph: Maya Alleruzzo/AP

The UK has imposed sanctions against four Israeli nationals, saying they were “extremist settlers” who had violently attacked Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

The measures impose strict financial and travel restrictions on the four individuals, who Britain said were involved in “egregious abuses of human rights”.