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The Guardian - UK
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Pippa Crerar, Jessica Elgot and Kiran Stacey

UK accuses Israeli ‘terrorists’ of ethnic cleansing in West Bank with government backing

Journalists and protesters run from tear gas fired by Israeli forces near Dura, West Bank
Palestinian landowners, journalists and protesters run from teargas fired by Israeli security forces blocking a road leading to a newly built Israeli settlement near Dura in the West Bank in June. Photograph: Hazem Bader/AFP/Getty Images

Settler terrorists supported by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government are committing ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, Ed Miliband has said, in the UK’s starkest condemnation since the foundation of the Israeli state.

Andy Burnham, the prime minister, said he would “not stand by” as horrific suffering continued, writing in the Guardian that for too long the UK had been hesitant to act, “fearful of being accused of being anti-Israel”.

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