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- Ed Miliband, UK foreign secretary, announced financial sanctions on Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
- Twelve countries, including United Kingdom, joined sanctions on the West Bank settlement network.
- Bezalel Smotrich, Israeli far-right minister, said the project aims to bury a Palestinian state.
- Mike Huckabee, U.S. Ambassador to Israel, called the UK sanctions irrational and anti-Jewish.
- Ehud Olmert, former prime minister, called settler violence an organized, state-funded campaign of ethnic cleansing.