# Israel’s foreign minister calls Miliband’s settlement remarks ‘scandalous’

https://mins.news/en/video/49953

- Al Jazeera English, 2026-09-08 14:56 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5niQ1GmcKs

> Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar criticised the UK’s ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements, calling it interference in Israel’s upcoming elections. He also described British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband’s comments on illegal settlements and settler violence as “scandalous” and false. Miliband had condemned the “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank by “settler terrorists”.

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