UK govt asked to clarify if Israeli settlement sanctions include Golan Heights

LONDON: The Council for Arab-British Understanding has written to UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband asking if the government’s new sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements will apply to the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. Caabu’s director, Chris Doyle, highlighted that the 34 Israeli settlements in the Golan — with a population of about 30,000 — were just as illegal as those in the occupied West Bank. In a press release, the council described the settlements as a “flagrant breach of the Fourth Gen