{"id":26825,"date":"2026-09-08T18:35:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/?p=26825"},"modified":"2026-09-08T18:35:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:35:49","slug":"uk-france-among-12-states-backing-sanctions-on-illegal-israeli-settlements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/08\/uk-france-among-12-states-backing-sanctions-on-illegal-israeli-settlements\/","title":{"rendered":"UK, France among 12 states backing sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em>View of a factory belonging to Israeli company Libi Construction and Infrastructure in Shilo, an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, April 30, 2026 [Ammar Awad\/Reuters]<\/em><\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em>Israel <\/em><em>\u2060<\/em><em>is closing <\/em><em>\u200b<\/em><em>Britain<\/em><em>\u2019<\/em><em>s consulate in occupied East Jerusalem as part of its retaliatory measures.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em>France, the United Kingdom, Canada are among 12 countries that have backed restrictions on trade with illegal Israeli \u2060<\/em><em>settlements in the occupied West Bank.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em>\u201cToday, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, \u2060<\/em><em>Poland, Portugal, Spain, \u2060<\/em><em>Sweden and the UK confirm their intention to introduce national and or support \u2060<\/em><em>European restrictions on trade in goods \u2060<\/em><em>with settlements which \u2060<\/em><em>are illegal under international law, or that they are actively considering these and \u200c<\/em><em>other measures, in accordance with their national procedures,<\/em><em>\u201d<\/em><em> the statement of the 12 countries<\/em><em>\u2019<\/em><em> foreign ministers said on Tuesday.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">egretnewseditor@gmail.com\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View of a factory belonging to Israeli company Libi Construction and Infrastructure in Shilo, an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, April 30, 2026 [Ammar Awad\/Reuters]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47471,"featured_media":26826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[149,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-intel","category-top-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47471"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26827,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26825\/revisions\/26827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}