The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has welcomed the US government’s announcement of visa bans on Israeli settlers involved in the attacks in the occupied West Bank, calling it a move in the “right direction”, Al Jazeera reports.

But the most prominent Muslim advocacy group says the US should “address the source of problem”.

“The far-right, racist [Prime Minister] Netanyahu government. Settlers are murdering Palestinians with support from Israeli officials like Itamar Ben-Gvir, whose forces are also literally kidnapping, threatening and torturing Palestinians in the West Bank,” CAIR said in a statement.

The group added that the US should impose “travel bans” on Ben-Gvir and other far-right Israeli officials and examine “legal avenues to file criminal charges against both the settlers and officials responsible for attacking Palestinian-Americans in the West Bank”.