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Heavily sanctioned Israeli minister hails US sanctions on Palestinian officials
Far-right Israeli Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who remains under sanctions from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, has hailed Washington’s decision to sanction the Palestinian Authority officials.
In a post on X, Smotrich said the US showed it “stands firm and chooses to lead a path of justice and morality”.
The Trump administration has faced domestic pressure to sanction Smotrich, while other Western countries have said Smotrich and fellow far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir “have incited extremist violence and serious abuses of Palestinian human rights”.
The Trump administration, however, has taken a permissive approach to Israeli officials, and earlier this year, revoked sanctions against illegal Israeli settlers accused of violence against Palestinians.
Earlier this week, one of those previously sanctioned settlers, Yinon Levi, earlier this week was accused of fatally shooting Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen.
Settlers attack Palestinians in West Bank’s Nablus, Ramallah
A group of Israeli settlers have reportedly attacked an automotive repair shop in the village of Bazariya, located northwest of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.
Settlers attacked from the eastern outskirts of the town and engaged in clashes with local residents, Wafa news agency cited a local official as saying.
Palestinian outlets also reported another settler attack on a village in Ramallah. Israeli soldiers and police forces stormed the town of Silwad and the village of Khirbet Abu Falah in Ramallah, hours after Israeli settlers attacked them.
‘We need help’: Family pleads for release of US teenager held by Israel
Israeli authorities have been detaining an American teenager for nearly six months without trial for allegedly throwing rocks at Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, a claim the 16-year-old’s family denies while expressing concern for his deteriorating health.
Mohammed Ibrahim, a Palestinian-American who was born in the US state of Florida, has been completely cut off from his family since his arrest in February without visitation or telephone rights, his father and uncle said.
According to an Israeli military interrogation video obtained by the family and seen by Al Jazeera on Wednesday, Mohammed denied accusations that he was throwing rocks at Israeli vehicles near his village north of Ramallah.
Zaher Ibrahim, the jailed teenager’s father, said on Wednesday that the family has received reports that Mohammed is losing weight drastically and suffering from a skin infection. Ibrahim said he is concerned about his son’s wellbeing.
“Of course, we have fear,” he said. “When you can’t visit him and you can’t get a phone call from him, what do you know? We don’t know if he’s dead … There’s nothing we know.”
Mohammed Ibrahim has been held in an Israeli prison for nearly six months without trial
One injured as Israeli settlers launch more West Bank attacks
A young Palestinian man was wounded by bullet shrapnel during an attack by Israeli settlers on the village of Deir Jarir, east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
Wafa news agency cited security sources as saying that groups of settlers also attacked Palestinians south of Bethlehem as well. The settlers reportedly threw stones at passing vehicles, causing damage to some of them.
Another settler attack took place in the town of Bruqin south of Salfit, with no injuries reported so far. In Hebron, settlers burned a Palestinian vehicle.
