LONDON: A group of 56 UK legislators representing all major political parties has strongly demanded the banning of violent Israeli settlers from entering into Britain. According to the Western media, they made a demand in a letter to the government of the UK.
The letter, addressed to Home Secretary James Cleverly and Foreign Secretary David Cameron also called for banning those who incite settler violence against Palestinian people in the occupied West Bank.
A British ban would follow Washington’s travel ban on Israeli extremist settlers of violence against Palestinian people, imposed on December 5.
The letter stated that after the recent constructive exchanges in the House of Commons, they write to ask that Israeli extremist settlers who commit violence and intimidation against Palestinian people in the West Bank should be banned from entry into the United Kingdom (UK).
56 UK Lawmakers Demand Israeli Settler Travel Ban
The letter terms Israel, as the occupying force in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, as having “main responsibility” for controlling extremist settlers. The letter added that extremist settlers enjoy impunity with Israeli authorities instead attacking Palestinian people in the Occupied West Bank.
Over 3,000 Palestinian people have been apprehended since the October 7, often in the most illogical manner and without any charge.
The letter also raises the matter of Anas Abu Srour, a refugee youth center official who was apprehended on November 28 without any charge and sentenced to 6 months’ administrative detention.
The 56 legislators called for the British Embassy in Tel Aviv to raise his matter and others as a matter of urgency.
The West Bank Protection Consortium, a program supported by ten EU nations and the United Kingdom, also needs an urgent funding increase to “address the massive raise in settler violence and pressure,” the letter adds.
