# ‘It’s a good start’: prominent Israelis welcome UK sanctions on illegal settlements

https://mins.news/en/item/51771

- The Guardian, 2026-09-09 17:36 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/09/israelis-welcome-uk-sanctions-on-settlements-palestine-west-bank

> Prominent Israelis have welcomed the UK’s new sanctions as a necessary response to settlement expansion and escalating violence in the occupied West Bank. They called the measures an “inevitable consequence” of Israeli government and security failures, rejecting the government’s claim that sanctions against Jewish terrorists are antisemitic.

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