President Biden is expected to sign off on sanctions on Judea and Samaria residents involved in violent attacks against Palestinians.

<p>The State Department has listed the four individuals who will be subject to the sanctions: David Chai Chasdai, Einan Tanjil, Shalom Zicherman, and Yinon Levi</p><p>According to the State Department Chasdai initiated and led a riot, which involved setting vehicles and buildings on fire, assaulting Palestinian civilians, and causing damage to property in Huwara, which resulted in the death of a Palestinian civilian.</p><p>Tanjil was involved in assaulting Palestinian farmers and Israeli activists by attacking them with stones and clubs, resulting in injuries that required medical treatment.</p><p>The State Department stated that according to video evidence, Zicherman assaulted Israeli activists and their vehicles in Judea and Samaria, blocking them on the street, and attempted to break the windows of passing vehicles with activists inside. Zicherman cornered at least two of the activists and injured both.</p><p>As per Levi, the State Department stated that he "led a group of settlers who engaged in actions creating an atmosphere of fear in the West Bank. He regularly led groups of settlers from the Meitarim Farm outpost that assaulted Palestinian and Bedouin civilians, threatened them with additional violence if they did not leave their homes, burned their fields, and destroyed their property. Levi and other settlers at Meitarim Farm have repeatedly attacked multiple communities within the West Bank."</p><p><a target="_blank" href="/news/384549">Read more.</a></p>

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The 55th Brigade has left Khan Yunis after two months of operations in the town during which 70 tunnel shafts were dismantled and numerous terrorist operatives were eliminated.

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Elisha Medan, an IDF reservist who lost both his legs, met the PM and asked him not to stop the fighting against Hamas and asked that Israel not return to the pre-war reality.

<p>Minister Bezalel Smotrich responded to the White House's intention to pass sanctions on residents of Judea and Samaria and to reports that President Biden considered sanctions on him.</p><p>"With God's help, I will continue to act fearlessly in order to strengthen and promote Jewish life in all parts of the Land of Israel and strive for sustainable peace, which will only be achieved when the Arabs' hope for the establishment of an Arab state on the ruins of the Jewish homeland is dashed. If the price of this is the imposition of American sanctions on me – then so be it.”</p>

A senior Hamas delegation, led by Ismail Haniyeh, arrived in Cairo for talks with the Egyptian intelligence head, about an exchange deal with Israel.