Foreign Minister Katz said on Wednesday during a meeting with Judea and Samaria heads that there was "no such thing as settler violence."
The move by the Australian government comes after allies Britain, the United States, Canada and Japan sanctioned some Israeli settlers in response to the violence in the West Bank.
According to videos and witness testimonies obtained by CNN, Israelis attacked the foreign and Palestinian individuals with “thick wooden sticks almost like baseball bats.”
KAN wrote that two Palestinians, a 38-year-old man and a 58-year-old woman, were wounded, and the woman remains in hospital.
Fuchs, who has completed his three-year stint as commander of IDF troops in the West Bank, is being replaced by Maj.-Gen. Avi Bluth.
"We remain deeply concerned by extremist settler violence in the West Bank and condemn such acts," said the Canadian Foreign Minister.
Israeli settlers have accused the last few IDF central commanders of spending too much time cracking down on Jewish violence versus Palestinian violence.
Since the beginning of the war, news outlets have been quick to tell partial stories of events in the West Bank and face no backlash when the whole truth comes to light.
A senior official told the Washington Post that the US was considering issuing sanctions against settlers blocking aid from reaching Gaza.
West Bank settlers arrived at the scene to block humanitarian aid they believed to be en route to the Gaza Strip, setting tires on fire, blocking the truck, and injuring the driver.