UK announces sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements
Britain will introduce an import ban on goods from Israeli settlements, Ed Miliband tells parliament.
United Kingdom Foreign Minister Ed Miliband has announced sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Britain will introduce an import ban on goods from Israeli settlements, Miliband told parliament on Tuesday.
He said that there will also be a comprehensive sanctions regime put in place, adding that 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.
“Today we refuse to be bystanders to further suffering and to the destruction of the two-state solution,” Miliband said, referring to Britain’s long-held support for the two-state idea, which Israel opposes.