Dhaka, June 10 -- The United Kingdom, together with Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand and Norway, has announced coordinated sanctions targeting individuals and entities accused of financing, enabling and carrying out violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

In a statement to Parliament on Wednesday, Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said the UK would impose sanctions on six entities and one individual involved in supporting settler violence. Australia and New Zealand announced similar coordinated sanctions last week.

The move comes amid growing international concern over rising settler violence and continued expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

According to the UK government...