UK ‘strongly opposes’ Israel’s legalisation of 5 settler outposts
1 تموز 2024 18:23
A statement from the UK’s Foreign Office slams the Israeli announcement that the settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank are to be legalised.
It also condemned “further punitive measures” taken against the Palestinian Authority and called on Israel to halt settlement expansion and hold perpetrators of “extremist settler violence” accountable.
“We are clear that actions by Israel to weaken the Palestinian Authority must stop. We call for longer-term measures to be put in place to ensure continued correspondent banking relations and assurance that Israel will release frozen funds without delay,” it said.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich recently announced the plan to legalise the outposts.
It also condemned “further punitive measures” taken against the Palestinian Authority and called on Israel to halt settlement expansion and hold perpetrators of “extremist settler violence” accountable.
“We are clear that actions by Israel to weaken the Palestinian Authority must stop. We call for longer-term measures to be put in place to ensure continued correspondent banking relations and assurance that Israel will release frozen funds without delay,” it said.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich recently announced the plan to legalise the outposts.