PoliticsForeign Secretary Ed Miliband told the House of Commons that the UK will create a sanctions regime to ban imports from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied territories. He also said the British government agrees that Palestinians are facing ethnic cleansing in parts of the West Bank.
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WorldForeign Secretary Ed Miliband said the UK would officially regard Israel’s occupation of the West Bank as unlawful in its entirety, calling it the strongest condemnation yet by a British government. The measures would ban goods from illegal settlements and adverts for settlement land, but may take up to nine months to begin.
PoliticsUnder a measure announced by Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, the UK is targeting products made in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The government says Israel’s expanding settlement programme is threatening the prospect of a Palestinian state, while Middle East commentator Chris Doyle gives his take.
PoliticsForeign Secretary Ed Miliband told the House of Commons that the UK now considers Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories unlawful. In a major policy shift, Britain will ban imports from illegal settlements, act against companies and individuals aiding settlement expansion, prohibit their advertising in the UK and apply a “double lock” to arms sales that materially contribute to such activity.
WorldUK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband says Britain will prohibit imports from Israeli settlements in the illegally occupied West Bank. The decision comes as Israel plans 1,200 new homes there; BBC journalist Jeremy Bowen examines the territory’s history and future.
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World4:19Twelve countries, including Britain, Canada and France, said Tuesday they would impose sanctions on trade with Israeli settlements in the West Bank, following a rise in attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinian villages there. British Foreign Minister Ed Miliband told Parliament that Britain must move beyond simply condemning injustice and suffering and act against settlement expansion.
PoliticsUS Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said a British ban on goods made in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank would, without a doubt, prompt consequences from the United States.
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Politics2:51:19Britain is set to announce a trade ban on goods made in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband is expected to make a statement in parliament.
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PoliticsUK foreign secretary Ed Miliband is due to announce a broad reset of Britain’s relations with Israel, pledging a more active government approach to supporting the Palestinian cause.
WorldViolence has flared in the occupied West Bank. Officials said Israeli troops killed a Palestinian during a village raid involving settlers from a nearby outpost, while another Palestinian was killed after entering an outpost and stabbing a settler.
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WorldIsrael has intensified efforts in recent weeks to make life unbearable in the occupied West Bank, where settlers protected by the Israeli army have besieged, attacked and killed Palestinians. Al Araby TV correspondent Ameed Shehade describes living and working with a target on his back.
PoliticsThe UK is expected to announce sanctions on goods and services from Israeli settlements in the illegally occupied West Bank. Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband is due to set out the move in the House of Commons on Tuesday, after saying the UK-Israel relationship would be “reset”.
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WorldPalestinians in Gaza have seen their available space shrink as the “Yellow Line” expanded after the Oct. 10 ceasefire agreement. Yellow concrete blocks placed among destroyed homes now mark the line known across the Gaza Strip by that name.
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WorldGermany argues that the International Court of Justice in The Hague lacks jurisdiction over Nicaragua’s case, which accuses Berlin of helping facilitate Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Nicaragua filed the case in 2024, saying Germany increased weapons exports to Israel despite the risk of genocide against Palestinians.
WorldAthena Rayburn, executive director of the Association of International Development Agencies, describes daily life in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. In Gaza, more than two million Palestinians are confined to roughly 104 square kilometres while Israeli forces repeatedly bomb the area. Clean water, food, electricity, medicine and sturdy shelter are increasingly difficult to obtain.
WorldGermany is asking the top UN court to dismiss Nicaragua’s case accusing Berlin of “facilitating genocide” in Gaza. The court could reject the case outright or rule against Germany, allowing a more detailed examination on the merits.
WorldAt least eight Palestinians have been killed in recent Israeli attacks across Gaza, including an eight-year-old girl on her way to school and a three-year-old boy in a classroom at a sheltering school. Israel’s military says it targeted Hamas sites in northern Gaza after one of its vehicles hit an explosive device. The attacks have continued despite a US-brokered ceasefire that began in October.
WorldMourners in Gaza gathered to grieve for roughly 100 victims, 60 of them children, whose remains had been retrieved from under the ruins of three Gaza City homes. The victims lost their lives in an Israeli assault almost three years ago, during the genocide’s initial phase.
WorldUS Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee visited Turmus Ayya in the occupied West Bank, where residents said Israeli settlers’ drive-by was intended to show him how Palestinians are provoked and intimidated. Huckabee, a longtime settlement supporter, has nevertheless described some attackers as terrorists.
WorldMike Huckabee visits as Israeli settlers attack Palestinians and Israeli forces conduct raids and arrests. Gaza’s humanitarian crisis is deepening, with Al Jazeera’s Lina-Serene examining the latest developments.
WorldUS Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee visited Turmus Ayya in the occupied West Bank. Palestinian residents pointed to rising settler attacks, land seizures and restrictions, and called for stronger US action to protect their rights.
WorldIsraeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has presented a plan for Gaza’s entire population to emigrate. Defense Minister Israel Katz said there was no real solution for Gaza without such migration and that Israel was seeking Donald Trump’s support for moving Palestinians out by sea, air or other means.
WorldIsraeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has proposed what he calls a “voluntary emigration” plan to move about 1.86 million Palestinians out of Gaza within seven years, through agreements with countries willing to receive them. None of the countries named by his party has shown interest, raising questions about the proposal’s impact on Israeli politics.
WorldFar-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has outlined a plan to send Palestinians from Gaza abroad. He said it would target the departure of 250,000 people in the first year and the remaining residents—roughly two million in total—over the next six years.