Occupied Territories: Housing

(asked on 8th November 2016) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the Israeli government on reports of a new illegal settlement at Shiloh in the West Bank.


Answered by
Tobias Ellwood Portrait
Tobias Ellwood
This question was answered on 15th November 2016

On 5 October I issued a public statement condemning the announcement of plans to construct a new settlement near Shilo. The Foreign Secretary, my Rt Hon. Friend the Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip (Mr Johnson) also raised our concern over settlements with Prime Minister Netanyahu when they met in Jerusalem on 30 September. Our Embassy in Tel Aviv also regularly raises our concerns with the Israeli authorities on the continued expansion of settlements in the West Bank.

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