{"id":283627,"date":"2026-09-08T13:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T13:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/283627\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T13:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T13:49:11","slug":"uk-imposes-trade-ban-on-goods-from-israeli-west-bank-settlements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/283627\/","title":{"rendered":"UK imposes trade ban on goods from Israeli West Bank settlements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Britain has announced a trade ban on goods made in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank in coordination with France and Canada, the latest sanctions to target Israel as it faces growing diplomatic isolation.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">British Foreign Minister Ed Miliband on Tuesday said London could no longer simply \u201ccall out\u201d injustice and suffering, but told \u200cthe House of Commons that the country now had to \u201cact\u201d to oppose the expansion of settlements.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cToday we refuse to be bystanders to further suffering and to the destruction of the two-state solution,\u201d Miliband said, referring to Britain\u2019s long-held support for the two-state idea, which Israel opposes.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The United States, through its ambassador to Israel, has already criticised Britain\u2019s new sanctions, while two Israeli ministers called for measures to be taken against Britain.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Britain\u2019s Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband leaves after a cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street, in London on Tuesday. Photo: Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/54215b63-988b-4724-aabc-5ef6b3ad091c_940cd0c1.jpg\" title=\"Britain\u2019s Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband leaves after a cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street, in London on Tuesday. Photo: Reuters\"\/>Britain\u2019s Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband leaves after a cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street, in London on Tuesday. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Miliband, who became Britain\u2019s foreign minister in July, also said his country\u2019s position was that the occupation in the West Bank was unlawful, and that London believed that there was ethnic cleansing of \u2060Palestinians in areas of the West Bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain has announced a trade ban on goods made in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[1412,5328,949,17914,2673,382,496,24613,37,2412,8750,1178,2253,588,6905],"class_list":["post-283627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-bezalel-smotrich","tag-britain","tag-canada","tag-east-jerusalem","tag-ed-miliband","tag-france","tag-gaza","tag-house-of-commons","tag-israel","tag-israeli","tag-itamar-ben-gvir","tag-london","tag-palestinians","tag-tel-aviv","tag-west-bank"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117235743005870333","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}