Hackney mayor Zoe Garbett formally wrote to Mayor Yona Yahav of Haifa, Israel, on Wednesday to inform him of Hackney Council's decision to end its twinning agreement.

Green Party, which took over control of the council from the Labour Party, is opposed to Israel's genocidal war on Gaza.

Hackney’s Greens say maintaining civic relations with Haifa contradicts the north London borough’s values