Israeli drinks company SodaStream has sacked its last 74 Palestinian workers after the firm was forced to move one of its factories out of the West Bank following pressure from the BDS movement.

The company shut its largest production plant in the settlement of Mishor Adumim last year and has moved it to Lehavim, in southern Israel. The closure has left around 500 Palestinians without work.

The final 74 employees were granted temporary permits to enable them to work in Israel but the documents were not renewed by the Israeli administration, a move that was criticised by SodaStream's chief executive Daniel Birnbaum.

He said: "The government of Israel somehow couldn't overcome their own bureaucracy or hard-headedness and figure out the tremendous challenge of allowing 74 good people to continue to let them do what they have been doing."

Brighton Israeli-owned store EcoStream, which sold SodaStream bottles, shut in 2014 after regular BDS protests. John Lewis no longer stocks SodaStream products, though it claims this is due to "declining sales".