Over a dozen Israeli public figures are calling on the UK and European Union to ban all trade with settlements in the occupied West Bank, which are illegal under international law, warning that Israel was expanding them at "an alarming rate".
In an open letter published in The Independent, 19 Israeli public figures, including former ambassadors, a former attorney general and a deputy speaker of the Israeli parliament, accused the UK and some European countries of failing to "translate its words into policy.” It warned that ending the settlement regime was "key to achieving peace between our two peoples."
