Britain on Tuesday sanctioned Israeli settler organisations that it said had sponsored violence against Palestinian communities in the West Bank, and called on Israel to "stop settler expansion on Palestinian land".

In the year since the Hamas-led attacks on Israel, the occupied West Bank has seen an increase in Israeli military raids and attacks by Israeli settlers. More than 600 Palestinians have been killed.

The Palestinian ministry of health said Israeli forces killed two Palestinians, including a teenager, on Monday in the West Bank city of Jenin which has seen repeated military raids.Since then, at least 737 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli soldiers or settlers in the West Bank,

The United States has imposed sanctions on Hilltop Youth, a group of extremists in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, for attacks on Palestinians. The U.S. Treasury Department announced the sanctions on Tuesday,

Early this year, two Palestinian American teenagers were shot and killed in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Despite a U.S. push for accountability, it remains unclear who exactly was responsible for their deaths,

The U.S. on Tuesday imposed sanctions on Hilltop Youth — a group of extremist settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank who attack Palestinians and their property, as well as two Israeli men connected to violence against Palestinians.