UK rejects Israel's 'damaging' retaliation to sanctions by ordering closure of Jerusalem consulate
Britain’s Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband on Wednesday condemned as “regrettable and damaging” Israel’s decision to order the closure of the UK’s consulate in Jerusalem as retaliation for London-led Western sanctions over settler violence. “We anticipated this might happen because we saw other countries, the Dutch, for example, who had announced sanctions, who had seen these reprisals from Israel.…
Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband denounced Israel's closure of the UK's Jerusalem consulate as "regrettable and damaging" in response to Western sanctions on Israeli settlements. The UK led a coalition of 12 nations, including Canada and France, in imposing trade sanctions on Israeli settlements in the West Bank following a rise in settler attacks against Palestinians.
Israel announced it would expel British representatives from a monitoring center for a US-brokered Gaza ceasefire plan, bar British training for Palestinian Authority forces, and prohibit 12 British MPs from visiting the country. Miliband assured that intelligence cooperation with Israel would continue and that the sanctions were not intended to impact that relationship.
The UK's chief rabbi criticized the sanctions as "little more than political flag-bearing," calling it a "dark day for British Jews." Israel ordered the closure of the British consulate in East Jerusalem, which is accredited to the Palestinian Authority, citing the sanctions imposed on Israeli settlements.
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