The United States has imposed sanctions on two entities that it says helped raise tens of thousands of dollars for two violent extremists in the West Bank already targeted with US sanctions, Reuters reports, quoting a Treasury Department statement.

One entity, Mount Hebron Fund, launched an online fundraising campaign that raised $140,000 for settler Yinon Levi, the Treasury said, after he was sanctioned on February 1.

The second entity, Shlom Asiraich, raised $31,000 on a crowdfunding website for David Chai Chasdai, who the US says initiated and led a riot.

The Treasury also designated Ben-Zion Gopstein, founder and leader of the right-wing group Lehava, which opposes Jewish assimilation with non-Jews.