Franziska Brantner, the head of Germany’s Green Party, has called for Berlin to join other countries in sanctioning two Israeli far-right ministers for inciting violence against Palestinians and open support of illegal settlements as well as the expulsion of Palestinians from their territory, Al Jazeera reports.
Brantner, who co-leads Germany’s second-largest opposition party, accused the two ministers, Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, of “openly calling for violence against the Palestinian population and long having propagated a policy of annexation and displacement.”
“This costs human lives, displaces entire communities and poses enormous hurdles on the path to a peace process,” Brantner told the DPA news agency.