Britain, Canada, France, and Norway on Tuesday announced coordinated sanctions targeting Israeli networks accused of financing, enabling, and carrying out violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Reuters reported.

The measures were synchronized with sanctions announced last week by Australia and New Zealand, reflecting mounting frustration among Western governments with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government as it expands settlements. Diplomats say the escalating settler violence is intended to undermine prospects for a Palestinian state, the news agency said. 

In a joint statement, the foreign ministers of the four countries and Australia said the measures were intended to “hold extremist settlers accountable for the horrific levels of settler violence against Palestinian civilians,” and urged the Israeli government to ensure meaningful accountability for violence in the territory. The ministers threatened further action if Israel does not take urgent steps to address conditions on the ground, Reuters said. 

The various sanctions packages don’t fully mirror one another, the news outlet noted. 

Britain said its sanctions were designed to disrupt the financial flows that have allowed extremist settler groups to operate with impunity in the West Bank. The U.K. package also designated a construction company whose resources London said had been used to destroy Palestinian property.

Canada sanctioned a different construction firm along with its owners, and barred Canadians from dealing with all designated parties.

France took a different approach, with Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot saying the government had banned Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, four leaders of settler organizations, and 21 violent settlers from entering the country, according to the report. 

Israel’s foreign ministry rejected the sanctions, saying the governments imposing them had failed to control antisemitism and were fueling it, the news agency said. Yisrael Ganz, head of the Yesha Council, which represents municipal councils of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, responded by calling on Israel’s parliament to dismantle the Palestinian Authority and strengthen Israeli presence and sovereignty throughout the territory.

Israel’s government has acknowledged that settler violence occurs and has at times condemned it, while opposing foreign sanctions tied to the West Bank, where it says Jews have a right to live, Reuters reported.

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis have settled among millions of Palestinians on land Israel captured in the 1967 war. Nearly all countries and a range of U.N. bodies consider the settlements a violation of international law, a position Israel disputes by citing historical and biblical ties to the land.

Among the concerns cited by the sanctioning governments is Israel’s planned E1 settlement project east of Jerusalem, which would bisect the West Bank and sever it from East Jerusalem, fragmenting territory Palestinians seek for an independent state, according to Reuters.