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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Emma Graham-Harrison in Jerusalem

Will UK sanctions have any impact on Israel’s ‘settler terrorists’ in West Bank?

Palestinian boys sit on a bench looking towards a new illegal Israeli outpost, across the way from the Palestinian village of Osrin in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, southeast city of Nablus.
Palestinian boys sit on a bench looking towards a new illegal Israeli outpost, across the way from the Palestinian village of Osrin in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, southeast city of Nablus. Photograph: Zain Jaafar/AFP/Getty Images

The British foreign secretary, Ed Miliband, has announced plans for an import ban on goods from illegal settlements in occupied Palestine and sanctions for companies that “finance or facilitate” the construction, infrastructure and marketing of illegal settlements.

He also said “settler terrorists” were perpetrating ethnic cleansing in the occupied West Bank, while the government turned a blind eye and some members supported it.

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