The United Kingdom, France, and Canada joined forces on Tuesday to ban imports of goods and some services from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

The United Kingdom has banned trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, where it says “settler terrorists” are carrying out “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians

Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said that the measures were “specifically targeted at the expansion of these settlements, which are illegal under international law, in the West…

New development heaps international pressure on Israel over its settlement expansion