Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has directed his ministry to cancel a waiver allowing Palestinian banks to operate, threatening the livelihoods of millions of Palestinians, just hours after he was sanctioned by several Western governments for his incitements of violence in the occupied West Bank.

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Israeli finance minister ends waiver that Palestinian banks rely on to operate after Western sanctions announced.

They really ought to be doing more. But in the scheme of things, the sanctioning of Israeli’s frothily fanatical ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich by New Zealand, Canada, Norway, the United Kingdom and Australia is a reminder to the ...

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GazaIsrael's Finance Minister has cancelled a waiver allowing Israeli banks to work with Palestinian counterparts in a move that could paralyse the Palestinian economy. It comes hours after the UK and other countries imposed sanctions on him and another hard-line minister.

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee met with Ministers Smotrich and Ben-Gvir and condemned the sanctions by five nations against them.

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