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Friday, July 26, 2024
Despite pushback from Netanyahu, US official says sanctions against Israeli extremists to continue
Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief
In conversations Thursday with both US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and Vice President Kamala Harris, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu forcefully raised his objection to the sanction campaign being waged by the US against other Israeli extremists accused of destabilizing the West Bank, says the Israeli official briefing reporters.
The US began imposing the sanctions in February amid what it points to as the overwhelming impunity enjoyed by settlers who regularly target Palestinians in the West Bank.
Netanyahu asserted that there are far more attacks against Israeli civilians in the West Bank than Palestinian ones and that the rate of Palestinian terrorists to civilians killed in the territory has been 50 to 1, the Israeli official briefing reporters says.
A US official tells The Times of Israel that Sullivan told Netanyahu in response that the administration’s sanctions against Israeli extremists will continue.
