The sanction concerned one organization and one man whom Washington accused of having decades of experience in threatening Palestinians.
In the middle of brewing up instability, the United States threatened to impose new penalties on radical Israeli Jews in the West Bank. Currently, the US is regarding it as a move aiming at reducing escalating settler attacks on the Palestinian area by punishing the.incremental funding of the extreme organizations by the government of Israel.
The Guardian pointed out that the sanction was directed to one organization and one person, which Washington accused of having a long history of the use of violence against Palestinians.
They designated them as “specially designated nationals,” and this resulted in having their assets frozen, and Americans cannot conduct any transactions with them. When the US declared the sanctions, they charged the Israeli settlers with the use of force against Palestinians to force them to vacate their land.
The group in question was a part of the Israeli group known as Hashomer Yosh, which had been giving protection to the illegal settlers. Indeed, some of these outposts are known to have been blessed by the US in the past.
The Guardian reported that the banned group has operated in the south Hebron hills on the boundary of the West Bank, an area that has been thickly populated by Jewish settlers, whose frequent attacks against the local Bedouin Palestinian residents were documented.
“In late January, after 250 Palestinians of Khirbet Zanuta [a village at the center of the struggle for land] were evicted, Hashomer Yosh volunteers cordoned off the village to keep the residents out,” an official of the US State Department, recently quoted Matthew Miller, said thus.
