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The Israeli-Palestinian group Combatants for Peace called for sanctions against Avi Bluth, the IDF West Bank chief, over a new settlement near Jericho, which it described as ethnic cleansing. The same day, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced a new West Bank industrial zone and tenders for 832 settlement homes. The group's call and the settlement announcements add to tensions over settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank. The reporting did not describe any response from the IDF or the government.