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UK announces sanctions on Israeli settlements in West Bank and accuses settlers of 'ethnic cleansing'
France and Canada joined the U.K. in targeting settlement goods and services, a move officials said could affect $200 million to $300 million in annual trade.
- 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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France and the United Kingdom have announced trade measures against products from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, on the basis of intensified violence against Palestinians and the expansion of colonies. Other European states and outside the European Union support or prepare similar measures, while the British decision has provoked harsh reactions from Israeli officials, announces France24.
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