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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 372

UK Foreign Office

Britain's then-Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson (L) shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the UK Foreign Office in central London, February 6, 2017. Behind them is the desk on which Johnson claimed, falsely, that former UK Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour which the Balfour Declaration in 1917. (AFP/Pool/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
October 3, 2024, 10:44 pm
Boris Johnson hints Netanyahu left a listening device in his bathroom during 2017 visit
In new memoir, Johnson says bug was found in routine sweep of ‘secret annex’ bathroom where PM ‘repaired for a while’ during foreign office meeting
By ToI Staff
Volunteers lays flowers at an installation by the charity Oxfam, depicting a Mark-84 2,000-pound bomb with the words 'Stop Arming Israel,' opposite the Houses of Parliament in central London on July 30, 2024. (HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)
August 19, 2024, 5:31 pm
Junior British diplomat quits to protest arms sales to Israel
Mark Smith, a counterterror official posted to Dublin, accuses Foreign Office of ignoring his attempts to raise concern about legality of weapons deals
By AFP
The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office in London, UK, August 14, 2014. (Wikimedia Commons)
June 22, 2023, 1:32 pm
UK watchdog asked to look at Foreign Office over opaqueness on Palestinian aid
Activists say the ministry, which handles humanitarian assistance abroad, is not providing timely information on whether its money funds terrorism
By Canaan Lidor
Jonathan Shenkin, 45, a British Jew who was killed in December while serving as a paramedic in Ukraine amid the Russian invasion. (Twitter screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 15, 2023, 2:12 pm
British Jew killed in Ukraine war had ‘lifelong passion for Israel,’ served in IDF
Jonathan Shenkin, 45, killed in December while serving as paramedic in Ukrainian military; was on team of ex-soldiers who rescued US woman from West Bank in 2009, brother says
By Michael Horovitz
Roman Abramovich, former owner of Chelsea, smiles following the team's victory during the UEFA Champions League in Porto, Portugal, on May 29, 2021. (Alexander Hassenstein/UEFA/Getty Images via JTA)
April 14, 2022, 7:39 pm
UK freezes over $13 billion in assets from pair of Abramovich lieutenants
British Foreign Office says sanctions on Eugene Tenenbaum, David Davidovich will deny funds to ‘Putin’s war machine’
By ToI Staff
A screen capture from a video said to show the destruction in Mariupol caused by the Russian siege and bombardment of the southern Ukrainian city, March 2022. (Twitter)
March 23, 2022, 8:32 pm
New drone footage shows massive extent of devastation in Ukraine’s Mariupol
Video reveals large area with bombed out, smoking buildings in southern port city where 100,000 are said to be trapped in Russian siege
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Illustrative: A prison in Iran. (CC BY-SA Ehsan Iran/Wikipedia)
August 7, 2021, 4:55 pm
UK denounces 10-year prison sentence for dual national in Iran
Foreign Office vows it’ll continue to raise labor activist Mehran Raoof’s case ‘at the most senior levels’
By AFP
Prime minister Yitzhak Rabin greets his British counterpart John Major at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem. (Government Press Office)
December 31, 2019, 6:40 pm
British diplomats, aides to UK ex-PM bickered over 1995 Orient House visit
Documents show then-premier John Major was worried that a trip by a British minister to PLO HQ in Jerusalem would cast pall over Israel tour
By ToI Staff
Protesters stage a demonstration outside a court house in Paralimni, Cyprus on December 30, 2019, in support of a 19 year-old British woman who was found guilty of fabricating claims that she was gang raped by 12 Israelis. (AP Photo/Philippos Christou)
December 31, 2019, 4:34 pm
Cyprus defends court after UK protests British teen’s conviction over rape claim
Defense lawyers for the woman, who accused a dozen Israelis of gang rape then retracted the allegation, cite ‘many violations’ of her right to fair trial, plan appeal
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A 19-year old British woman, right, covers her face as she leaves from the Famagusta court after her trial, in Paralimni, Cyprus, Monday, Dec. 30, 2019. (AP/Philippos Christou)
December 31, 2019, 3:48 am
Not a ‘fair trial’? UK expresses unhappiness with Cyprus over rape claim verdict
London says it is ‘seriously concerned about … deeply distressing case’ after British woman convicted of lying about gang rape by Israelis; some allege political motives
By ToI Staff and AP
Palestinian rockets are being fired from Gaza city on November 12, 2019. (BASHAR TALEB/ AFP)
November 12, 2019, 11:08 am
EU condemns ‘utterly unacceptable’ Gaza rocket fire on Israeli civilians
‘Terrorists are very likely to try to carry out attacks,’ UK Foreign Office says in updated travel advisory; Dutch embassy in Tel Aviv remains closed
By Raphael Ahren
Israeli security forces scuffle with American-French protester Frank Romano on September 14, 2018, during a protest against the expected demolition of the Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar in the West Bank. (AFP/Abbas Momani)
June 7, 2019, 1:02 am
New UK human rights report accuses Israel of ‘continued violations’
Document notes Jewish state a ‘robust open democracy,’ but decries ongoing ‘pressure’ on critics of Israeli policies vis-à-vis the Palestinians; also slams PA and Hamas for abuses
By Raphael Ahren
Incoming UK Ambassador to Israel Neil Wigan. (Courtesy: UK Embassy, Tel Aviv)
January 31, 2019, 12:10 pm
Britain names Neil Wigan as new ambassador to Israel
Current head of UK Foreign Office’s Africa Directorate to succeed David Quarrey in June
By Raphael Ahren
Illustrative image of a new neighborhood in the settlement of Efrat in the West Bank, on January 26, 2017. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
January 12, 2018, 11:28 am
UK condemns Israel green-lighting some 1,100 new settlement homes
London says move undermines two-state solution; Civil Administration committee approves 352 of the units for construction
By ToI Staff
Prince Charles seen during the funeral late former president Shimon Peres at Mount Herzl, in Jerusalem, on September 30, 2016. (Emil Salman/Pool)
May 9, 2017, 6:47 pm
Rivlin reinvites UK royal family after reported cancellation
British Foreign Office said to have put kibosh on Israeli trip planned for fall 2017 for fear it would anger Arab allies
By Tamar Pileggi and Raoul Wootliff
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