imposed sanctions on Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir

The UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Norway imposed sanctions on Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir for inciting 'extremist violence' and supporting settlement expansion against Palestinians.
The sanctions include travel bans and asset freezes.
The five Western countries said in a joint statement that both ministers "have incited extremist violence and serious abuses of Palestinian human rights".
Smotrich and Ben Gvir condemned the sanctions, Ben Gvir invoked biblical language, saying: "We overcame Pharaoh, we’ll overcome Keir Starmer too."
Smotrich accused the UK of once again trying to obstruct Jewish settlement, saying: "They already tried once to prevent us from settling our ancestral homeland, and we won’t let them do so again."