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Placards set up by a small group of people holding an anti-Israel demonstration outside the Houses of Parliament in central London. [Henry Nichols, AFP]
More than half a dozen Arab and Muslim countries, including Saudi Arabia and Turkey, on Wednesday welcomed UK-led sanctions targeting Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, urging other countries to take similar steps.
The foreign ministers of eight countries in a statement, said they "welcome the decision of the Government of the United Kingdom to ban the import of goods from illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory".
The countries- Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Egypt also hailed other Western countries for announcing their intention to restrict trade with Israeli settlements.
