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UK urges British firms to stop activities in illegal Israeli settlements
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The UK government on Tuesday urged British businesses and citizens to refrain from conducting financial activities in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank deemed illegal under international law.
“I have strengthened our business risk guidance to make it clear and unambiguous: if you are a British citizen or business, you should not conduct any economic and financial activities in illegal Israeli settlements,” Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper told parliament.
“We believe that violent settler groups should not be profiting from the land that they have seized from Palestinians,” Cooper added, saying the Israeli “government has condemned some settler violence, but that rings hollow when there is scant accountability”.
