UK warns Israeli settlement plan would mark ‘flagrant’ breach of international law

British foreign minister David Lammy says a widely condemned Israeli settlement plan would, if implemented, constitute a breach of international law and risk dividing a future Palestinian state.

The E1 project, which would bisect the West Bank and cut it off from East Jerusalem, received the final go-ahead today from a defense ministry planning commission.

“If implemented, it would divide a Palestinian state in two, mark a flagrant breach of international law and critically undermine the two-state solution,” Lammy says in a post on X, calling on the Israeli government to reverse the decision.

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