News Summary

• France banned Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, from entering the country.
• France, the United Kingdom, Canada and Norway – coordinating with Australia and New Zealand – sanctioned networks financing settler violence.
• Amnesty International accused Israel of a years-long, state-sponsored campaign of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank designed to accelerate annexation.
• Israeli anti-settlement group Peace Now said the cabinet moved to fund 69 settlements in a plan worth $388m, while bypassing standard planning procedures.
• Peace Now added that the government has approved or legalised 103 settlements since late 2022, 51 of them entirely new.