France has imposed coordinated national sanctions over the violence in the occupied West Bank with its allies, the country’s foreign minister says, according to Al Jazeera.

“With our British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, and Norwegian partners, we are today imposing new sanctions against those responsible for intensifying colonisation and violence in the occupied West Bank,” he said on X.

France has barred Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, four leaders of settler organisations, and 21 violent settlers from entering France, Barrot said.

He said: “Bezalel Smotrich actively promotes the annexation of the West Bank, which he openly claims, the creation of new settlements in the West Bank, the recolonisation of Gaza, the economic collapse of the Palestinian Authority, and its deleterious consequences on the Palestinian population: This is a policy that the overwhelming majority of the international community cannot accept, firmly committed to the two-state solution.”