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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Holly Evans

Senior rabbis show support for Burnham’s sanctions on illegal Israeli West Bank settlements

Palestinians run from tear gas smoke on a road in Jabal Tarousa near Dura, south of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank - (Middle East Images/AFP/Getty)

Several high-profile UK rabbis have shown support for Andy Burnham’s sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, warning that settler violence should not be tolerated.

On Tuesday, foreign secretary Ed Miliband announced a trade ban on goods imported from the Occupied Palestine Territories, and said that the removal of Palestinian families from their homes amounted to “ethnic cleansing”.

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