UK foreign secretary pledges tougher stance on Israeli actions in Gaza and West Bank

Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband told the Labour Party conference in Liverpool that Britain will ban imports from Israeli settlements and "match words with action."

• Miliband announced measures banning imports of goods from Israeli settlements and disrupting British finance, construction and services supply lines to them.
• He said Labour "calls out ethnic cleansing by settler terrorists in the West Bank," evidence of war crimes in Gaza and Israel's "illegal occupation" of Palestine.
• Miliband said Labour had "reset its approach" under Prime Minister Andy Burnham and would oppose moves threatening the two-state solution.
• Dozens of activists were arrested outside the Liverpool conference while rallying in support of the banned Palestine Action group.
• More than 160 people were arrested or reported for summons at the protest, including 82 arrests, among them 94-year-old barrister Margaret Owen.
• Two activists confronted Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband at a Pizza Express in Liverpool over the arrests and Gaza policy.
• Merseyside police defended the arrests as proportionate, while protest organizers accused Labour of hypocrisy over its Gaza position.
• In response to the British measures, Israel closed the British consulate in East Jerusalem.