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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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MPs call for end to real estate event over fear it pushes sale of Israeli settlements

Protest against a new Israeli settlement in Deir Abu
In a letter to the foreign secretary, MPs and members of the House of Lords urged the government to take ‘all necessary steps’ to stop the event going ahead. Photograph: Mohammed Torokman/Reuters

More than 100 UK lawmakers have called for the cancellation of an Israeli real estate event scheduled to take place in London on Sunday, which had appeared to advertise the sale of land in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

In a letter sent to the foreign secretary on Friday, 101 parliamentarians and members of the House of Lords, warned the event was “firmly embedded in Israel’s project of colonial expansion by facilitating the sale of land that has been stolen from Palestinians” and called on the government to take “all necessary steps” to stop the event from going ahead in the capital.

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