SINGAPORE — Singapore will impose financial sanctions on four Israelis and bar them from entering the city-state, its Foreign Affairs Ministry announces, accusing them of “egregious acts of extreme violence” against Palestinians in the West Bank.
The ministry says actions committed in the West Bank by Meir Mordechai Ettinger, Elisha Yered, Bentzi Gopstein, and Baruch Marzel were unlawful and had jeopardized the prospects for a two-state solution.
“As a firm supporter of international law and the two-state solution, Singapore opposes any unilateral attempts to change facts on the ground through acts which are illegal under international law,” it says.
All four individuals have previously been sanctioned by the European Union.
Singapore’s Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan announced in parliament in September that leaders of Israeli settler groups would be sanctioned.
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