{"id":325,"date":"2026-09-08T16:48:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T16:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawkseyexpress.in\/?p=325"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:48:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T16:48:23","slug":"israel-to-close-british-consulate-in-jerusalem-in-response-to-uk-sanction-on-west-bank-settlements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawkseyexpress.in\/?p=325","title":{"rendered":"Israel to close British consulate in Jerusalem in response to UK sanction on West Bank settlements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-cdn.publive.online\/fit-in\/1280x960\/greater-kashmir\/media\/media_files\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/202102071519250728_Israeli-PM-denounces-ICC-decision-on-jurisdiction_SECVPF.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>London, Sep 8: <\/strong>Israel will close the British consulate in Jerusalem in response to UK sanctions on West Bank settlements, the country&#8217;s foreign minister said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa&#8217;ar announced the move as part of a series of countermeasures against the UK for its decision to ban trade with the Israeli settlements.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Sa&#8217;ar said Israel would also expel UK representatives from a joint military centre monitoring the Gaza ceasefire and end UK training of the Palestinian Authority&#8217;s security forces in the West Bank. In addition, Israel will prevent the entry into Israel of 12 elected UK officials, as well as other British citizens, Sa&#8217;ar said, who were &ldquo;involved in antisemitic and anti-Israel activity.&rdquo; (AP)<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greaterkashmir.com\/world\/israel-to-close-british-consulate-in-jerusalem-in-response-to-uk-sanction-on-west-bank-settlements-12508207\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London, Sep 8: Israel will close the British consulate in Jerusalem in response to UK sanctions on West Bank settlements, the country&#8217;s foreign minister said Tuesday. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa&#8217;ar announced the move as part of a series of countermeasures against the UK for its decision to ban trade with the Israeli settlements. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawkseyexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawkseyexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawkseyexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawkseyexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawkseyexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hawkseyexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawkseyexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawkseyexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawkseyexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawkseyexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}