Amnesty International UK on Tuesday urged the British government to impose sanctions on senior Israeli officials, arguing that new measures announced earlier in the day fail to hold the “architects” of settler violence in the occupied West Bank accountable, Anadolu reports.
“Today’s announcements are a step, but they are not enough,” Kristyan Benedict, Amnesty International UK’s crisis response manager, said in a statement after Britain and five other countries announced sanctions targeting networks “financing and enabling settler attacks” against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
He said that if the British government is serious about sanctioning those “who support and sponsor violence against Palestinian communities in the West Bank,” it must recognize that settlements and settler violence are “state policy – directed and funded from the top.”
Earlier Tuesday, the UK, Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand and Norway announced sanctions in response to record settlement expansion and rising violence by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank.
READ: 6 nations impose sanctions on networks financing, enabling occupiers’ attacks in West Bank
