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Written Question
Israel: West Bank
Monday 19th December 2022

Asked by: Andrew Selous (Conservative - South West Bedfordshire)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department's policies of reports that Israel will retrospectively legalise outposts in the West Bank; and if he will make a statement.

Answered by David Rutley

We are clear that settlements are illegal under international law and threaten the viability of a Two State Solution. The UK urges the Government of Israel to permanently end its settlement expansion and settlement activity in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Israeli outposts in the West Bank are also illegal under international and Israeli law, and should be removed entirely.

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