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UK readies sanctions against Israel to deter proposed illegal West Bank settlement The UK Foreign
West Bank. ## Israeli reaction Israel’s foreign ministry denounced the sanctions shortly after they were announced. “Israel firmly rejects the disgraceful measures adopted by foreign governments against Israeli citizens, entities, and a government minister,” Ministry
Israel has recently invited bids for tenders for the E1 development, a settler plan for about 3,500 homes that if implemented would sever the West Bank in two. Britain has already imposed sanctions
sanctions reflect a need to manage public anger rather than a genuine shift in state policy. He stressed that the Israeli government itself is the entity that plans, funds, and executes settlement expansion. Israel
West Bank, where rising settler violence against Palestinians has received widespread condemnation by European governments. The [violence](/news/2026/3/23/israeli-settlers-rampage-through-west-bank-towns-for-second-night-in-a-row), which Palestinians and activists say is ignored and often supported by the Israeli armed forces, has prompted
West Bank". Israel's foreign minister Gideon Sa'ar said the decision was "arbitrary and political" and that Israel would continue to "stand for the right of Jews to settle in the heart
West Bank in the recently deserted village of Zanuta, where the population say they were forced out by settler harassment. Photograph: Jason Burke/The Observer Through the Jgive platform, for which UK Toremet processes UK currency
West Bank and Gaza, the Labour chair of the foreign affairs select committee, [Emily Thornberry](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/emily-thornberry), has said. She accused her own government of lacking ambition and wringing its hands on the Palestinian
sanctions](/news/2026/6/9/six-countries-sanction-networks-enabling-settler-violence-in-west-bank) against networks financing and executing Israeli [settler violence](/news/2026/6/10/sanctions-on-settlers-not-enough-target-israeli-govt-say-campaigners) against Palestinians in the illegally occupied West Bank earlier this week. The Western countries’ response follows record illegal settlement expansion and rising violence
UK, Italy, France, Germany, Canada, Norway, the Netherlands and New Zealand said: “Over the past few months, the situation in the West Bank has deteriorated significantly. Settler violence is at unprecedented levels. “The policies
UK should do differently in Gaza, either unilaterally or in concert, however. In July 2025 Streeting wrote that Israel’s rogue state behaviour justified applying sanctions to the state, “not just a few ministers