UK FM mulls more sanctions against Israeli settlers over West Bank violence
UK Foreign Minister David Lammy has announced Britain's decision to keep under review "possible new sanctions" against violent zionist settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Lammy said on Sunday that the British foreign ministry was concerned by settlers' violent actions that were inflaming tensions in the West Bank.
He added, "We are very worried about escalatory behavior, very worried about inflamed tensions."
"I'm absolutely clear: if we have to act, we will act, and I'm in discussions with G7 partners particularly and European partners on that," Lammy added.
Two times earlier this year, in February and in May, Britain announced sanctions against violent Israeli settlers over what it said was Zionist extremist groups perpetrating settler violence against helpless Palestinians in the West Bank.
"I'm not announcing further sanctions [against Israeli settlers] today, but that is kept under close review, and as you would expect, I am deeply, deeply concerned."
Lammy, who became foreign minister in July after the UK Labour Party won the elections victory, indicated the new government would take a similar approach to other countries in sanctioning extremist Zionist settlers perpetrating violence in the occupied Palestinian land.
The European Union’s top diplomat Josep Borrell wrote on X social media messaging platform last month, "Day after day, in an almost total impunity, Israeli settlers fuel violence in the occupied West Bank, contributing to endanger any chance of peace."
"The Israeli government must stop these unacceptable actions immediately," he noted, vowing to "table a proposal for EU sanctions against violent settlers' enablers, including some Israeli government's members."
The settler violence in the West Bank has surged since the Israeli war machine started a genocidal war against the Palestinians trapped in the Gaza Strip almost a year ago. Since then, hundreds of helpless Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli troopers and/or settlers. Tens of thousands more have been killed in Gaza.
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