{"id":456110,"date":"2026-06-01T23:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T23:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/456110\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T23:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T23:02:11","slug":"new-zealand-places-travel-bans-on-three-extremist-israeli-settlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/456110\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand places travel bans on three extremist Israeli settlers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GNHNC2AAYZEGXIFPLJNACLFI4Q.png\" alt=\"Adam Pearse\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/adam-pearse\/\" class=\"text-sys-text-dark underline underline-offset-3\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" data-test-ui=\"author--link\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Pearse<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deputy Political Editor\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>1 Jun, 2026 08:48 PMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Foreign Minister Winston Peters says the banned individuals are destabilising the West Bank. Photo \/ Sylvie Whinray<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">New Zealand is placing travel bans on three extremist Israeli settlers for their violent acts to expand illegal settlements in the Palestinian territory of the West Bank. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The individuals now banned from travelling to New Zealand are Itamar Yehuda Levi, Harel David Libi and Eliav Libi. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The bans<br \/>\n         reflect decisions made by Australia and the European Union and were announced by  Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOur travel bans are not about the Israeli people, nor the Israeli Government. This action is against three individuals whose use of violence and displacement is destabilising the West Bank. We have been clear such actions are unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe actions of these individuals threaten peace and security for Israelis and Palestinians and drive the region further into crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam Pearse Deputy Political Editor\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7 1 Jun, 2026 08:48 PMQuick Read \u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23503,1643,50356,11598,19667,42,16484,38609,117,43,90,21485,22399,33235,75889,231825,103847,165,1529,40,38,41,39,274,20424,3807,80],"class_list":["post-456110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-acts","tag-bank","tag-bans","tag-expand","tag-extremist","tag-headlines","tag-illegal","tag-israeli","tag-new","tag-news","tag-on","tag-palestinian","tag-places","tag-placing","tag-settlements","tag-settlers","tag-territory","tag-their","tag-three","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-travel","tag-violent","tag-west","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}