  {"id":201263,"date":"2016-11-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=201263"},"modified":"2019-03-12T18:08:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:08:31","slug":"auto-insert-201263","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-201263\/","title":{"rendered":"UK FCO Concerned by Bill in the Israeli Knesset Regarding West Bank Settlement Outposts &#8211; UK FCO Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#808080;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Press release<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#00201f;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Minister for the Middle East statement on settlement outposts across the West Bank<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#00201f;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">16 November 2016<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#00201f;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>FCO Minister Tobias Ellwood deeply concerned by the land regulation bill in the Israeli Knesset to &#8216;legalise&#8217; settlement outposts across the West Bank.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#00201f;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Foreign Office minister, Tobias Ellwood, said:<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#00201f;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">We are deeply concerned by the land regulation bill in the Israeli Knesset to &#8216;legalise&#8217; settlement outposts across the West Bank. Such outposts are currently illegal under both Israeli domestic law and international humanitarian law. Should this proposal go ahead, it would seriously undermine prospects for a two-state solution. I urge the Israeli government to reconsider the land regulation bill at the earliest opportunity.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#00201f;text-align:left;padding-top:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Further information<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#00201f;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Follow Foreign Office Minister Tobias Ellwood on Twitter <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tobias_Ellwood\" style=\"color:#603181;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><u>@Tobias_Ellwood<\/u><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#00201f;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Follow the Foreign Office on Twitter <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foreignoffice\" style=\"color:#603181;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><u>@foreignoffice<\/u><\/a><span style=\"color:#00201f;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">&nbsp;and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/foreignoffice?ref=hl\" style=\"color:#603181;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><u>Facebook<\/u><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#00201f;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Follow the Foreign Office on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ukforeignoffice\/\" style=\"color:#603181;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><u>Instagram<\/u><\/a><span style=\"color:#00201f;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/ukforeignoffice\" style=\"color:#603181;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><u>YouTube<\/u><\/a><span style=\"color:#00201f;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">&nbsp;and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/foreign-and-commonwealth-office?trk=biz-companies-cym\" style=\"color:#603181;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><u>LinkedIn<\/u><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#00201f;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Media enquiries<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#00201f;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Email<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/mailto:newsdesk@fco.gov.uk\" style=\"color:#603181;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><u>&nbsp;newsdesk@fco.gov.uk<\/u><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#00201f;text-align:left;padding-bottom:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">News Desk 020 7008 3100<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;padding-top:6px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/minister-for-the-middle-east-statement-on-settlement-outposts-across-the-west-bank\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;padding-top:6px;font-size:6pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/minister-for-the-middle-east-statement-on-settlement-outposts-across-the-west-bank<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press release Minister for the Middle East statement on settlement outposts across the West Bank 16 November 2016 FCO Minister Tobias Ellwood deeply concerned by the land regulation bill in the Israeli Knesset to &#8216;legalise&#8217; settlement outposts across the West Bank. Foreign Office minister, Tobias Ellwood, said: We are deeply concerned by the land regulation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-201263\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[2321],"document-category":[2437,1329,1338],"document-source":[],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2185,2137],"entity":[1985],"document-language":[6544,6542],"class_list":["post-201263","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-united-kingdom","document-category-arabic-text","document-category-press-release","document-category-statement","document-subject-legal-issues","document-subject-settlements","entity-state","document-language-arabic","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/201263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/201263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=201263"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=201263"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=201263"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=201263"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=201263"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=201263"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=201263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}