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The deadly UAVs "continue to be used by Russia against Ukraine and by regional terrorist proxies against our troops.”

The president’s decision drew criticism from the American Jewish Committee and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.

“I believe that Israel and America have an ironclad relationship, and I have faith in what the Biden administration is doing,” the Senate majority leader said.

"Hezbollah continues to rely on seemingly legitimate business investments and key facilitators to generate revenue for the group’s operations,” stated Brian Nelson, a U.S. Treasury under secretary.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has warned that unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state by the U.N. General Assembly will result in an immediate halt to all transfers of funds to the P.A.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said he called National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, threatening to "intervene" if the sanctions went through.

"I will strongly defend the IDF, our army and our fighters. If somebody thinks they can impose sanctions on a unit in the IDF, I will fight this with all my powers."

"The reported sanctions to be imposed by the US State Department on IDF combat units and individuals stem directly from a coordinated campaign by extreme political NGOs."

The army said it is not aware of U.S. measures against the battalion but is monitoring the situation.

The moves are the latest actions against Israelis that the Biden administration accused of “undermining peace, security and stability in the West Bank.”

“This is only a small portion of what’s been going on with these illicit trades,” said Jason Brodsky, policy director of United Against Nuclear Iran.(

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich denounced "unprecedented sanctions on Israeli citizens whose entire sin is that they settle in Judea and Samaria."

The United States has blacklisted a total of seven Israelis pursuant to President Joe Biden’s Feb. 1 Executive Order, but will not reveal how it determined that they are "undermining peace, security and stability" in Judea and Samaria.

“It seems that today all will agree on putting sanctions on both Hamas and the violent settlers who are harassing Palestinians,” Joseph Borrell said.

"After the October 7 attack, it is no longer possible to distinguish between the military and the political wing of Hamas. The organization as a whole bears responsibility for these terrible terrorist attacks."

The Florida senator wrote to the U.S. defense secretary after a Dutch appeals court’s decision threatened to halt delivery of U.S.-made F-35 parts to Israel.

"We're talking about simple families that work in agriculture. We must defend their right to live," Likud lawmaker Amit Halevi told JNS.

"We expect the Israeli government to make it clear to those known as 'our friends overseas' that it will not allow this injustice to take place."

The harassment of Israeli residents in Samaria began two weeks ago with the first round of sanctions imposed on four Israelis by the United States.

Earlier this month, the US government imposed sanctions on four Israelis also accused of "settler violence" in Judea and Samaria.

"Hamas has sought to leverage a variety of financial transfer mechanisms, including the exploitation of cryptocurrency, to channel funds to support the group’s terrorist activities," an under secretary of the treasury said.

Effective immediately, the terror master's financial assets in E.U. member states will be frozen.

Iran had made two “transactions” for humanitarian purposes from an account in Oman, said Elizabeth Rosenberg, an assistant treasury secretary.

Among those on the list was Ayman Nofal (Nofal), a senior commander of the Hamas military wing Izz al-Din al-Qassim Brigades, who was killed Tuesday in a targeted airstrike.

The secretary of state claims the monies will be used only for humanitarian purposes; Tehran says otherwise.

Gallant calls on world powers to prevent the proliferation of weapons once the U.N. arms embargo on the Islamic Republic expires in October.

Russian state nuclear energy company Rosatom will now be permitted to profit in the Islamic Republic without facing sanctions.

“The Treasury Department is taking action against a corrupt money exchanger, whose financial engineering actively supports and enables Hezbollah and its interests at the expense of the Lebanese people and economy.”

This cooperation threatens not only Ukraine but also Iran's neighbors, U.S. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said.

The US said the network used a web of straw companies and fraudulent tactics that include forging documents and invoices to sell oil on the international market and evade sanctions.