Australia’s foreign minister has announced that the country is imposing financial sanctions and travel bans on seven Israeli settlers who have violently assaulted Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Penny Wong, the foreign minister, said the violence included beatings, sexual assault and torture resulting in serious injury and in some cases death and urged the Israeli government to “recognise the importance of its standing and legitimacy in the international community”. She added that Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are illegal under international law in her statement made on…