KUALA LUMPUR - Singapore will impose targeted financial sanctions and entry bans on four Israeli individuals for their involvement in acts of violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, with immediate effect.
In a statement Friday, the Foreign Ministry said the individuals - Meir Mordechai Ettinger, Elisha Yered, Ben-Zion Gopstein and Baruch Marzel - have been involved in egregious acts of extremist violence.
"Such actions are unlawful and undermine and jeopardise prospects for a two-state solution,” the ministry said.
Singapore also reiterated its view that Israeli settlements in the West Bank are illegal under international law.
"Their presence and expansion will make it much harder to arrive at a viable two-state solution,” it added.
As a firm supporter of international law and the two-state solution, Singapore opposes any unilateral attempts to change facts on the ground through acts which are illegal under international law, it said.
Singapore also called on the Israeli government to restrain acts of settler violence and to hold the perpetrators accountable. - BERNAMA