00:01Several Western governments sanctioned two Israeli government ministers on Tuesday.
00:07The reason? National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich
00:14were allegedly inciting extremist violence against Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
00:21Well, these two individuals, Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, have been inciting violence against Palestinian people for months and months and months.
00:36They have been encouraging egregious abuses of human rights.
00:42We have been raising this with the Israeli government both privately and publicly.
00:47We were raising it before we came to government and indeed the last government raised it as an issue.
00:55And alongside our partners, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Norway,
01:01today we are announcing sanctions against those individuals because we have been absolutely clear.
01:11This has to stop and we stand for a two-state solution.
01:15Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Norway jointly sanctioned the two Israeli ministers
01:21in a move that is seen as a sharp rebuke of Israeli settler violence in the West Bank.
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