Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar has unveiled a series of counter-sanctions on Britain after UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements on Tuesday.
In a speech on Tuesday afternoon, Saar said Israel would close the British consulate in occupied East Jerusalem and remove British representatives from the International Gaza Support Center.
He announced an end to British training of Palestinian forces and a ban on 11 British MPs from entering Israel. The list includes former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, independent MP Zarah Sultana, Labour MPs Naz Shah, Diane Abbott, John McDonnell and Richard Burgon, and Green Party MPs Carla Denyer, Adrian Ramsay, Ellie Chowns, Sian Berry and Hannah Spencer.
In addition, Israel banned the lawyer Fahad Ansari, who has worked on a case arguing for Hamas to be de-proscribed as a terror organisation in Britain.
On Tuesday the British government recognised the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, declared the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory illegal and announced both comprehensive sanctions on Israeli settlements and a ban on all arms licences and other exports that "materially contribute to the occupation".
