The UK on Tuesday announced sanctions against illegal outposts and organisations in response to what it described as continued violence by extremist Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, devastating Palestinian communities.
UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy called for a crackdown on settler violence in West Asia as he announced sanctions targeting three settler outposts and four organisations that have "supported, incited and promoted violence" against Palestinian communities in the West Bank. Settler violence is described as seeking to force Palestinians to leave their homes and seize their land for the construction of outposts, which the UK says are illegal under both international and Israeli law.
“When I went to the West Bank earlier this year, on one of my first trips as Foreign Secretary, I met with Palestinians whose communities have suffered horrific violence at the hands of Israeli settlers,” said Lammy.
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