The Treasury Department’s announcement comes the same day the European Union also levied sanctions against Israeli settlers, as the West Bank has seen some of its worst settler violence against Palestinians since a war last summer between Israel and the militant group Hamas in the neighboring Gaza Strip. Included in the sanctions are two entities — the Mount Hebron Fund and Shlom Asiraich — that the Treasury Department says raised money for sanctioned settlers Yinon Levi and David Chai Chasdai. Both men were previously sanctioned by the Biden administration for leading violent attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. The sanctions aim to cut them off from the U.S. financial system and bar Americans from doing business with them. The Mount Hebron Fund raised about $140,000 for Levi and Shlom Asiraich raised about $31,000 for Chasdai, according to the Treasury Department. In Levi’s case, the now-sanctioned fund is tied to a regional council that receives Israeli government money, but the sanctions do not target the regional council itself. Rights groups have criticized the Israeli government — the most right-wing in the country’s history — and regional councils for enabling the expansion of illegal settler outposts in the West Bank. The Treasury order also stopped short of sanctioning the New York-based fundraising websites GiveChak and Charidy, which have hosted fundraisers that benefited the sanctioned individuals. In Chasdai’s case, the Charidy fundraiser was organized by Shlom Asiraich, who raises money for extremist Jewish prisoners. Both of those online fundraisers have been taken down. But at least one fundraiser for a settler previously sanctioned by the Biden administration, Moshe Sharvit, remains online. That GiveChak page has raised more than $879,000 to date. The Treasury’s deputy secretary, Wally Adeyemo, said the groups “undermine the peace, security, and stability of the West Bank,” and that the U.S. will continue to use the tools at its disposal to hold accountable those responsible. In February, Biden signed an executive order targeting Israeli settlers in the West Bank who have been accused of attacking Palestinians and Israeli peace activists in the occupied territory. Also on Wednesday, the Council of the EU added four people and two organizations involved in settlement expansion in the West Bank and East Jerusalem to its human rights sanctions list. In a statement, the council said it was targeting “those responsible for serious human rights violations against Palestinians, including torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, and for violations of the right to property, private and family life of Palestinians in the West Bank.” The sanctioned entities are Lehava, a “far-right, Jewish supremacist” movement, and Hilltop Youth, a group of “radicalized youth known for violent attacks against Palestinians and their villages in the West Bank.” Meir Ettinger and Elisha Yared, two of the leading figures of the latter group, were also blacklisted for their involvement in attacks that killed Palestinians between 2015 and 2023. The EU council also sanctioned Neira Ben Pazi, who it said had repeatedly attacked Palestinians in the Wadi Seeq and Deir Jarir areas since 2021, and Yinon Levi, who “participated in several violent attacks against neighboring villages from his illegal outpost in Mitzpe Yitzhar.” Those sanctioned are subject to travel bans within the EU and have any assets in the bloc frozen. Also Read: US Congress advances aid package for Ukraine and Israel