Israeli Settlements
Lords · Question HL747 · Tabled 4 Sep 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · Official record
Answered 18 Sep 2024
Question
Asked by The Lord Bishop of Gloucester
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the intensification of land confiscation, settlement construction and settlement expansion in the Occupied Palestinian Territories since 7 October 2023.
Answer
Answered by Lord Collins of Highbury, 18 Sep 2024
West Bank settlement expansion and settler violence have reached record levels. The Israeli government has seized more land this year than in the past twenty years combined. This is unacceptable: it runs counter to multiple resolutions of the United Natio...