Israel offers cash to firms hit by trade ban; Europe dithers on new rules
Israel hopes to redirect goods from illegal Israeli settlements towards markets in Asia and South America.
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Israel hopes to redirect goods from illegal Israeli settlements towards markets in Asia and South America.
Canada pledges 100 million Canadian dollars ($71m) for Palestinians as UK and France urge action on Israeli settlements.
UK PM Burnham condemned Israel’s war on Gaza, and explains why the UK sanctioned illegal Israeli settlements.
Some 750,000 settlers live across more than 500 illegal settlements and outposts, as Israeli pogroms hit record highs.
Israel is accused of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
Analysts say UK move far from enough to drive momentum for Palestinian statehood.
Over a year, the UK imported just £6m ($8.1m) in goods recorded as Palestinian, including Israeli settlement goods.
Israel has announced that it’s shutting down the UK Consulate in occupied East Jerusalem after a new ban on its goods.
UN expert Francesca Albanese calls UK sanctions on Israeli settlements a ‘seismic shift’ after years of UK ‘complicity’.
The UK’s foreign secretary has announced a ban on trade with goods from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
The UK has announced a trade ban on goods made in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
France will join the UK and other countries in launching a process to ban products from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said on Tuesday, amid rising settler violence that has further undermined prospects for a two-state solution with the Palestinians. France 24's Marc Perelman has the details.
British foreign minister Ed Miliband accused the Israeli government on Tuesday of turning a "blind eye" to what he called "ethnic cleansing" by settlers in the West Bank. Miliband told parliament the UK government would introduce "an import ban on goods from illegal settlements in the occupied territories", in a move coordinated with other countries. Jordana Miller, ABC correspondent in Jerusalem, told France 24 that the ban was evidence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to rein in the far-right elements of his government that has facilitated the growth of settlements.
Twelve countries including Britain, Canada and France Tuesday said they would slap sanctions on trade with Israeli settlements in the West Bank, after increasing attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinian villages in the occupied territory. British Foreign Minister Ed Miliband said Britain could no longer simply "call out" injustice and suffering, but told the House of Commons that the country now had to "act" to oppose the expansion of settlements.
Britain has announced a trade ban on goods made in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank in coordination with France and Canada, the latest sanctions to target Israel as it faces growing diplomatic isolation. British Foreign Minister Ed Miliband on Tuesday said London could no longer simply “call out” injustice and suffering, but told the House of Commons that the country now had to “act” to oppose the expansion of settlements. “Today we refuse to be bystanders to further suffering and...
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UK to announce trade ban on goods from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.