12 Countries Move to Restrict Settlement Goods as Europe Targets Trade Beyond the Green Line
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Updated · Haaretz · Sep 16
12 Countries Move to Restrict Settlement Goods as Europe Targets Trade Beyond the Green Line
3 articles · Updated · Haaretz · Sep 16
Summary
Britain, France and 10 other countries said Tuesday they would introduce or consider restrictions on trade in goods from Israeli settlements, marking a coordinated shift from criticism to concrete action.
A new report helped drive the move, finding settlement exporters systematically obscured the origins of goods shipped to Europe, raising the risk that mislabeled products entered markets as Israeli goods.
Ed Miliband said the measures would target illegal settlements rather than Israel itself, though the report warned businesses inside the Green Line could still bear some of the commercial fallout.
The announcement broadens a tougher European approach already visible in Norway, which this week proposed criminal penalties for business with West Bank settlements.