Former UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron says he planned to sanction Ben Gvir and Smotrich
David Cameron, the former British prime minister and foreign secretary under the previous Conservative government, said he planned to impose sanctions on two senior members of the Israeli government - but stopped short of doing so because of the general election in July.
In an interview with the BBC on Tuesday morning, Cameron said he wanted to impose an asset freeze and travel ban on Israel's finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, and the national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir.
He told Radio 4's Today programme: "Smotrich and Gvir had said things like encouraging people to stop aid convoys getting into Gaza and encouraging extreme settlers in the West Bank with the appalling things they have been carrying out."
He said it was necessary to tell Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu that "when ministers in your government who are extremists and behave in this way, we are prepared to use our sanctions regime to say this is simply not good enough and simply has to stop".
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