Singapore imposes sanctions on far-right Israeli activists

SINGAPORA, Nov. 22 (YPA) – Singapore’s Foreign Ministry has imposed sanctions on four Israeli settlers’ leaders in the occupied West Bank for committing heinous acts of violence against Palestinians.

The move was welcomed by the Palestinian Authority, which viewed it as a call to confront settlement policies and ethnic cleansing.

This came in separate statements issued by the foreign ministries of Singapore and Palestine.

The Singaporean Foreign Ministry stated that its government financial sanctions targeted the four Israeli settlers “with immediate effect” and banned them from entering Singapore.

The statement identified the four settler leaders as Meir Mordechai Ettinger, Elisha Yered, Ben-Zion Gopstein and Baruch Marzel.

The Singaporean FM asserted that these settlers committed “illegal acts that jeopardize the prospects for a two-state solution,” according to the ministry’s statement.

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