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Evening Standard
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Bill Bowkett and Michael Howie

Britain 'condemns' Israel's decision to set up 22 new settlements in occupied West Bank

The UK has condemned Israel’s decision to establish 22 new settlements in the occupied West Bank as a “deliberate obstacle to Palestinian statehood”.

Foreign Office minister Hamish Falconer said the UK “condemns” the decision, which Israel's defence minister Israel Katz described as “a strategic move that prevents the establishment of a Palestinian state that would endanger Israel”.

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