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Israeli envoy to UK hits back at criticism of new settlement plans: ‘Wouldn’t tell the British where to build in London’
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Israeli Ambassador to the UK Tzipi Hotovely arrives to attend a Service of Thanksgiving at Westminster Abbey on V-E Day in London, May 8, 2025. (AP/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Israel’s envoy to the United Kingdom hits back at British Foreign Secretary David Lammy over his criticism of a controversial new Israeli settlement plans.
“I wouldn’t tell the British where to build in London,” Ambassador Tzipi Hotovely tells the Daily Mail.
“We see E1 as part of greater Jerusalem,” she adds, referring to the construction project.
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