New Delhi, June 9 -- The sanctions have moved up the supply chain. For the first time, Canada and four allied governments did not simply name the settlers wielding the rifles and setting the fires. On Tuesday, they named the funders, the legal vehicles channelling donations, and the construction firms whose employees destroyed Palestinian property while on payroll - a decisive shift in how Western governments are framing accountability for extremist violence in the occupied West Bank.

a package that Canadian officials say reflects a deliberate effort to trace violence upstream to its organizational and financial roots.

The action was coordinated with the United Kingdom, France, Norway and Australia under a joint ministerial statement is...