France is mulling new sanctions on those enabling the expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, regarded as illegal under international law, Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on a visit to the Palestinian territory on Thursday. “France has been a driving force to establish the first sanction regime at the European level targeting individuals or entities, either actors or accomplices of settlement activities”, Barrot said after talks with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in Ramallah. “This regime has been activated two times already and we’re working on a third batch of…