France bans far-right Israeli minister Smotrich

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France has banned Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich from entering the country, the French foreign minister said, as part of coordinated sanctions with other countries over settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. France's sanctions were in coordination with Britain, Canada, Australia, Norway and New Zealand, targeting "those responsible for the escalation of settlement activity and violence in