Following their denied entry into the occupied West Bank, the British delegation called for aggressive policies targeting companies that provide surveillance, insurance, and financing to settlements. This confrontation represents the second time in 18 months that Israeli forces have blocked UK parliamentarians from entering the territory. Furthermore, the delegates are demanding that London close critical loopholes in its arms export regulations to end complicity in military operations.
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Delegates demand the British government sanction the state of Israel directly rather than…: Delegates demand the British government sanction the state of Israel directly rather than restricting penalties to individual settlers.
Campaigners want UK sanctions expanded to companies that finance, insure, and supply surv…: Campaigners want UK sanctions expanded to companies that finance, insure, and supply surveillance technology to illegal settlements.
The UK is being pressured to close existing arms export loopholes to prevent British comp…: The UK is being pressured to close existing arms export loopholes to prevent British components from aiding military actions.
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Israeli forces detained our parliamentary delegation and barred us from the West Bank. The violence we went to investigate is Israeli state policy.
This week I tried to enter the illegally occupied West Bank, along with two other British parliamentarians and an international delegation of observers. We were all interrogated and detained by Israeli forces for nearly eight hours and finally prevented from crossing the border.
Our unpleasant experience pales in comparison to the daily experience of Palestinians living under occupation. Year after year, decade after decade, Palestinians have faced not simply inconvenience but a systematic attempt to eradicate their existence. We have seen a genocide in its most brutal form in Gaza. But in the West Bank we see a slow-motion form of ethnic cleansing, perpetrated by Israeli forces and their settler militias.
And it gets worse. Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called on Israel last month to do the same in the occupied West Bank as “what we did in Gaza”. And so we came to shed light on Israel’s crimes, including the brutal attacks on olive harvesters…
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