France on Tuesday banned Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich from entering the country, the French foreign minister said, slamming him for actively promoting the annexation of the West Bank and the “re-colonisation” of Gaza, France 24 reports.

“Four leaders of settler organisations, and twenty-one violent settlers” were also banned from French territory, Jean-Noel Barrot wrote on X, condemning a “policy that the overwhelming majority of the international community, firmly committed to the two-state solution, cannot accept.”

The minister said the announcement “imposing new sanctions on those responsible for the intensification of settlement-building and violence in the West Bank” was in tandem with the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Norway.