Amman, June 7 (Petra) – French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said that France may impose additional sanctions on Israeli settlers in the coming days in response to the expansion of settlement activity in the West Bank and increasing violence against Palestinians.

Speaking in an interview with Public Sénat television and RTL radio on Sunday, Barrot said that "more stringent sanctions could be imposed in the coming days," expressing deep concern over what he described as the escalation of illegal settlement construction in the occupied West Bank and the growing violence committed by Israeli settlers against Palestinians.

Barrot added that he is advocating sanctions not only against individuals responsible for acts of violence but against entities, companies and organisations in Israel that he said support extremist settlers.

"The measures should target those who provide extremist settlers with the means to expel Palestinians from their land, burn crops and destroy public property," he said.

//Petra// AK