Government response to Israel’s West Bank annexation plan

That this House notes the Israeli Government’s 15 February approval of a plan to register land in the Occupied Palestinian Territory of the West Bank as Israeli state property; strongly condemns this illegal plan to seize yet more Palestinian land; further notes the statement backed by 85 UN Member States, including the UK, opposing this de facto annexation of the West Bank as a violation of international law; recalls the July 2024 Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice, which found that Israel’s continued presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory is unlawful and must end as rapidly as possible, and that all new settlement activity must cease; also notes that the Court made clear that all states, including the UK, must not only recognise this situation as unlawful but must refrain from any aid or assistance that maintains it and must take steps to prevent economic or trade activity that entrenches it; notes that the Government rightly imposed widespread sanctions on Russia for its illegal war in Ukraine but has failed to do so in light of Israel’s reported war crimes and repeated international law violations; and calls on the Government to meet its legal obligations following the ICJ Opinion by banning trade and investment in goods and services with illegal Israeli settlements, imposing targeted sanctions including travel bans and asset freezes on all individuals and entities complicit in Israel’s occupation, suspending the UK–Israel trade agreement until Israel complies with international law, and imposing an arms embargo on Israel.