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sanctions previously placed on violent Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank. Francesca Albanese, the UN special
place at an “unprecedented” distance from Israel, and that those intercepted included a Paris Communist municipal councillor, Raphaelle Primet, and another 10 French nationals. Israel’s defence minister, Israel Katz, [said on Wednesday](https://www.timesofisrael.com
sanctions against Francesca Albanese, a UN expert on the Palestinian territories,** finding that the Trump administration [likely violated](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/13/un-francesca-albanese-sanctions) her free speech rights by imposing the measures after she criticized Israel