{"id":4225,"date":"2018-04-26T16:50:22","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T16:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/?p=4225"},"modified":"2018-04-29T16:53:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T16:53:50","slug":"dozens-of-british-mps-urge-economic-pressure-on-israel-over-demolitions-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/?p=4225","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of British MPs urge \u2018economic pressure\u2019 on Israel over demolitions policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published in:\u00a0Europe & Russia<\/a>,\u00a0Israel<\/a>,\u00a0Middle East<\/a>,\u00a0News<\/a>,\u00a0Palestine<\/a>,\u00a0UK<\/a><\/p>\n

Dozens of British parliamentarians have urged the UK government to apply \u201ceconomic pressure\u201d on Israel over the latter\u2019s ongoing, illegal policy of demolishing Palestinian homes and structures in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Early Day Motion<\/a>, titled \u2018Demolition Plans in Khan Al-Ahmar in the West Bank\u2019, was tabled on 17 April and as of Wednesday, 25 April had attracted the support of 47 MPs from Labour, the Conservatives, the Scottish National Party, and Plaid Cymru.<\/p>\n

The motion\u2019s title relates to an Israeli Supreme Court hearing on Israeli authorities\u2019 planned demolition of buildings in Khan al-Ahmar village in the occupied West Bank. This morning, Human Rights Watch official Omar Shakir\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0that the court had postponed its decision by a week.<\/p>\n

The motion \u201ccondemns those plans and the impact they will have on communities in the occupied Palestinian territories\u201d, and states that \u201cthe demolition of these buildings would be a flagrant disregard by Israel of both the will of the international community and the international legal order\u201d.<\/p>\n

The MPs go further, however, and note the wider context in the occupied Palestinian territory of a \u201ccoercive environment of threatened demolition, illegal settlement expansion and forcible displacement\u201d, a \u201cdaily reality faced by [Palestinian] communities\u201d under Israeli occupation.<\/p>\n

The motion \u201cwelcomes the actions taken by the EU in issuing a demarche to Israel\u201d, and \u201creminds the Government of its duties as a signatory to the Convention of the Rights of the Child and the Fourth Geneva Convention\u201d.<\/p>\n

The MPs call on the UK government \u201cto exert meaningful and decisive political, diplomatic and economic pressure on the Israeli authorities to halt the demolitions programme as a whole and, in particular, to abandon attempts to demolish the school and other buildings in Khan al-Ahmar\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\"Palestinian<\/a><\/p>\n

Palestinian Home Demolitions \u2013 Cartoon [Sabaaneh\/MiddleEastMonitor]\n

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