President Joe Biden introduced sanctions against certain Israeli settler groups accused of violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. These groups were accused of committing acts that intensified the ongoing conflict in the region.

US President Donald Trump has canceled an executive order that enabled sanctions against violent Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, the White House announced Monday.

JINSAFUT, West Bank (AP) — Shortly after suspected Jewish settlers stormed Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank late Monday, setting cars and property ablaze, U.S. President Donald Trump canceled sanctions against Israelis accused of violence in the territory.

President Donald Trump has lifted US sanctions imposed by his predecessor on extremist settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, in a reversal praised by the Israeli far right. Joe Biden's administration had imposed the sanctions on Israeli settler groups and individuals accused of violence against Palestinians.

US President Joe Biden extended by one year the order declaring a state of emergency in the West Bank and authorizing the imposition of sanctions on Israeli residents of the region. "The situation ...

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Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump's reversal of sanctions imposed by the Biden administration on Israeli settler groups and individuals accused of being involved in violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

US President Donald Trump has revoked his predecessor Joe Biden's executive order that enabled sanctions against violent Israeli settlers in the West Bank, the White House announced Monday.

President Donald Trump has taken the first steps toward enacting his sweeping agenda with a series of executive actions that are expected to kickstart his promised transformation of the federal government.

Violence erupted in the occupied West Bank just hours after President Trump took the stage at the inauguration parade in Washington, D.C. NBC News' Raf Sanchez has more on the latest operation from Israeli forces.

Trump also canceled a Biden order blocking sanctions on the International Criminal Court amid his flurry of day-one executive orders.