UK condemns Israeli settlement expansion in West Bank: Lammy
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy has slammed Israel’s plans to build thousands of new illegal settlement units in the E1 area of the occupied West Bank.
“If implemented, it would divide a Palestinian state in two, mark a flagrant breach of international law and critically undermine the two-state solution. The Israeli government must reverse this decision,” Lammy wrote on X.
Rights advocates have urged the UK to do more than simply condemn Israeli policies, however, calling on Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government to impose an arms embargo against Israel amid abuses against Palestinians.
"Condemn" verb Pretend you care about an issue to deflect from your complicity and responsibility in creating said issue.
West Bank churches warn Israel using taxes to seize land and property
St George’s monastery was built more than 1,500 years ago. Armed Israeli settlers have attempted to set fire to this holy site on at least five different occasions in the last month alone.
Israeli settlers have also set up illegal outposts around the church’s historic lands.
People say it is part of a larger plan to forcibly expel Palestinian Christians from the area and obliterate the historic and Christian identity in Palestine.
The latest attack came in the form of Israeli authorities imposing taxes on church-owned properties.
