Ed Miliband has accused the Israeli government of turning a blind eye to “ethnic cleansing” in the West Bank and announced a series of sweeping sanctions on trade with illegal settlements, in a dramatic downturn in relations between the UK and Israel.
In a move he said marked a “new approach” to ties between the two countries, the foreign secretary declared the occupation of the West Bank as a whole was unlawful, going beyond the previous position that only described the settlements themselves as illegal.
