Amnesty International, the human rights organisation which has been a consistent critic of Israel, has called on countries to stop the import of goods worth hundreds of millions of pounds produced on “occupied Palestinian land”.
Kate Allen, director of Amnesty’s UK branch, said Britain should “do the legally and morally right thing and introduce a ban on the import and sale of all goods produced in the Israeli settlements.”
For decades, the world had “shamefully stood by as Israel has destroyed Palestinians’ homes and plundered their land and natural resources for profit.”
In a press release which referred to the 50th anniversary of “Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip”, Amnesty also criticised “a wide range of human rights violations” by Israel, including the demolition of Palestinian homes and the forcible displacement of “hundreds of thousands of Palestinians”.
