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UK announces sanctions on Israeli settlements in West Bank and accuses settlers of 'ethnic cleansing'
The ban will also bar services tied to settlement financing and construction, as the government says settlement expansion is undermining a two-state solution.
- Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced a comprehensive set of UK sanctions against Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, openly accusing "settler terrorists" of carrying out ethnic cleansing with tacit Israeli government support.
- The measures include a complete import ban on goods produced in West Bank settlements, alongside prohibitions on services, financing, construction, real estate, and advertising linked to illegal outposts.
- Miliband formally stated that the UK now considers Israel's entire occupation of the West Bank unlawful, framing the trade and export restrictions as a critical intervention to preserve the viability of a future two-state solution.
- Israeli officials fiercely condemned the move, with Foreign Minister Gideon Saar threatening retaliatory actions against Britain and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich demanding the immediate expulsion of the UK ambassador.
- U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee criticized the sanctions as discriminatory against the Jewish people, warning that the policy shift could trigger economic or political retaliation from Washington.
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While London respects its sanctions against Israeli settlers, writer Gideon Levy believes that it may give the international community a false sense of action, without prejudice to the substance of the settlement project or its sponsors.
Britain's measures against Israeli settlements are unlikely to have any economic significance. The significance lies elsewhere, believes DR's Middle East correspondent Nanna Muus Steffensen.
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