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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
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[email protected] | Alasdair Ferguson

Scottish faith groups unite demanding action on illegal occupation of Palestine

Palestinians collect their belongings from their evacuated homes after the Israeli army issued a number of short term access permits for residents of the occupied West Bank refugee camp of Tulkarem. (Image: AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

RELIGIOUS groups across Scotland have united to call for an end to the illegal occupation of Palestine as faith leaders demand the UK Government suspend arms sales to Israel and impose wide-ranging sanctions for the country's war crimes.

A campaign was launched calling on the UK Government to intervene amid the rise in Israeli settler violence in the West Bank that has seen Christian and Muslim communities alike “decimated” with the lives of millions “destroyed”.

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