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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic Editor

Liz Truss’s plans to move UK embassy to Jerusalem to be fought by legal group

The British embassy in Tel Aviv, 2017.
The British embassy in Tel Aviv, 2017. Photograph: Michael Jacobs/Alamy

A legal group that supports the rights of Palestinians has written to Liz Truss to tell her that it plans to launch a judicial review in an attempt to block any UK government movement of the British embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) has commissioned a legal opinion in support of its argument that such a move would be in breach of the government’s international obligations.

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