UK expected to announce sanctions on Israeli settlements in occupied West Bank

The UK is expected to announce sanctions on goods and services from Israeli settlements in the illegally occupied West Bank

• Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband is due to announce the move in the House of Commons this afternoon - he recently said the UK-Israel relationship would be "reset"

  

• The settlements are illegal under international law - the UK's move comes as Israel opens tenders for 1,200 new homes in the occupied territory

• The US opposes the UK imposing sanctions. The US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, tells the BBC that US states could retaliate against the UK

• It's a symbolic gesture from the UK - but a significant moment.

• "If Britain acts against the state of Israel, the state of Israel will act against Britain," the Israeli Foreign Secretary, Gideon Saar, told an Israeli podcast last week when asked about a UK ban on settlement trade.

• FULL REPORT AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cmp8djn8983gt

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 A school in the occupied West Bank has been surrounded by barbed-wire fencing as Palestinian parents fear for their children's safety due to the rise of Israeli settler attacks in the area.

The isolated village of al-Mughayyir, north-east of Ramallah, has been increasingly surrounded by Jewish settler outposts, and regularly blocked by Israeli forces who frequently operate an ad-hoc checkpoint at the entrance. 

Six people, including three pupils at the school, have been killed in al-Mughayyir this year, in a surge of settler-related violence against Palestinians. One of them, 14-year-old Aws al-Naasan, was shot dead by a settler outside the school gates in April.

All Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are illegal under international law. Many of the small ad-hoc settler outposts that have mushroomed around al-Mughayyir are illegal under Israeli law too.

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Andy Burnham to slap sanctions on Israel and spark row with Donald Trump

Andy Burnham has been left bracing for a row with Donald Trump after pushing ahead with imposing sanctions on Israel.

The Prime Minister, who also risks a backlash from Labour MPs, will fast-track a trade ban against Israeli settlements in the West Bank tomorrow. The sanctions are not thought to include financial restrictions on specific individuals or companies.

Mr Burnham is expected to say that Britain will not stand back and accept the “destruction of the two-state solution”. The announcement comes in response to Israeli plans to open tenders for the construction of 1,200 settler homes in a key area of the West Bank known as E1.

However, Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband had already confirmed plans for sanctions on Israel as part of a "comprehensive reset" in relations.

Mr Burnham told Mr Trump about his plan to slap sanctions on Israel in a phone call tonight. A Number 10 spokeswoman said: “On the Middle East, the Prime Minister set out the UK's commitment to working towards peace and security in the region, stressing the importance of the Two-State Solution, the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and ensuring that Iran never acquires a nuclear weapon."

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Israeli air strikes on a village in southern Lebanon have killed at least nine people, the Lebanese health ministry says.

Eight people, including a child and two women, were killed in one strike that destroyed a residential building in Kfar Roummane overnight, according to the ministry. A second strike on a vehicle killed a paramedic.

The Israeli military said it was looking into the reports.

On Sunday, Israeli strikes killed seven people across southern Lebanon, as the Israeli military retaliated for what it said were drone attacks by the Shia Muslim armed group Hezbollah on troops in occupied areas of the country.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said the "dangerous escalation" was jeopardising June's US-brokered ceasefire, which was meant to end the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.

He urged the international community to put pressure on Israel to stop the attacks.

FULL REPORT AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yl96vz0edo

New videos of man in 9/11 lawsuit reveal extremist links

The man at the heart of a $1 trillion (£733bn) lawsuit brought by 9/11 families had extensive links to Saudi government officials and went paintballing with one of al-Qaeda's future leaders, video obtained by the BBC reveals.

The footage, which the FBI had within days of the 2001 attacks, stands in stark contrast to Omar al-Bayoumi's 25 years of denials that he was an extremist and a Saudi spy.

Bayoumi, who claimed to be a student when he was in the United States, is seen in one clip embracing Anwar al-Awlaki, who would go on to lead al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. In another, Bayoumi and Awlaki are paintballing near San Diego with an official from Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Islamic Affairs.

The videos form part of the 9/11 families' lawsuit against Saudi Arabia and have never been shown publicly before. The lawsuit argues Saudi Arabia was complicit in the attacks and that Bayoumi aided two of the 19 hijackers who flew planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon - with another crashing in Pennsylvania.

Bayoumi was arrested in the UK by the Metropolitan Police days after the attacks and the videos were found among his possessions, along with other crucial evidence. This included a diagram of a plane with a flight descent equation written alongside.

Multiple FBI agents received copies of the diagram, but it was never shared with the British interrogators, even though it had been couriered to the police station where Bayoumi was being held in custody.

The diagram was also kept from some FBI agents investigating Bayoumi, as well as from the 9/11 Commission - the independent inquiry into the largest mass murder in US history, in which nearly 3,000 people were killed. Bayoumi was never prosecuted.

He and the Saudi government did not respond to the BBC's requests for comment, but both have always denied any involvement in, or prior knowledge of, the attacks. The FBI declined to comment.

After a judge ruled the lawsuit could go ahead in 2018, thousands of documents, as well as videos and photographs, have been released to the court and also declassified through an executive order made by former President Joe Biden.

VIDEOS AND REPORT AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr4vn1e207go

Iran warns of 'faster, heavier, more painful response' to US attacks

Iran's top negotiator has warned of "a faster, heavier, and more painful response" to US attacks, as hostilities between the two sides escalate.

Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Sunday that Americans must understand "before it is too late" that the "rules of the game have changed", according to a translation of his comments on state media. 

His comments come nearly a week into renewed fighting between Iran and the US, and a day after Washington said it struck Iranian oil tankers in response to Tehran attacking American warships in the region's waters.

Iranian state media also reported on Sunday that the country's Navy had attacked an American remote-controlled vessel that was trying to enter the Strait of Hormuz. The US military has denied the claim. "The report came from Iranian state media and it's a total lie," said Captain Tim Hawkins, a spokesperson for Centcom, according to the Associated Press.

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has issued his own threats back at Iran, writing on social media on Saturday, "It's simple: if Iran shoots at US ships, we will destroy (and sink) their oil tankers." A 60-day ceasefire between the US and Iran formally expired last month, and that period of relative calm was shattered when the US resumed attacks last Sunday.

Fighting has continued throughout the week, with the US launching multiple strikes on Iranian targets and Iran retaliating against US targets in the region, including in the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan.

US President Donald Trump said this week that the renewed fighting would not last "too long", echoing comments both he and his administration have frequently made since the now six-month-long war began in February.

FULL REPORT AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8d56w7d9po