C of E bishops criticise UK inaction over Israel’s ‘West Bank de facto annexation’

Palestinians prepare to leave their home in Ras Ein al-Auja in the West Bank last month after harassment by Israeli settlers. Photograph: Quique Kierszenbaum/The Guardian

Three prominent Church of England bishops have accused the UK government of contributing to a “culture of impunity” in which Israel has accelerated its de facto annexation of the West Bank.

Guli Francis-Dehqani, the bishop of Chelmsford, Rachel Treweek, the bishop of Gloucester, and Graham Usher, the bishop of Norwich, visited Palestinian Christian communities in the occupied West Bank last week.