Politics
Israel expels British monitoring team and orders UK consulate closed after settlement sanctions
September 11, 2026 at 07:56 PM
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AJAl Jazeera Arabic
اعتقالات وإصابات في هجمات للمستوطنين بالضفة الغربية
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AJAl Jazeera Arabic
تلغراف: إسرائيل تطرد جنودا بريطانيين كانوا يرصدون عنف المستوطنين بالضفة
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MAMasrawy
تصعيد جديد.. إسرائيل تطرد فريقًا عسكريًا بريطانيًا من الضفة الغربية | مصراوي
(opens the publisher’s site)Israel has ordered the British team in Ramallah, deployed to monitor settler violence, to leave within seven days, and given the UK consulate in East Jerusalem a month to close.
- Israel ordered the British support team, roughly 10 soldiers based in Ramallah, to leave the country within seven days.
- Israel ordered Britain's consulate in East Jerusalem to close within a month, responding to British trade sanctions on West Bank settlements.
- On Tuesday, 12 states including Britain, France, Spain and Canada announced a joint ban on trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
- Defense Minister Israel Katz said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and he ordered the IDF to prepare for full-scale war on Palestinian Authority bodies and infrastructure.