Legal experts urge UK to expand Israeli settlement trade ban

LONDON: More than 130 senior UK legal figures told Prime Minister Andy Burnham on Tuesday that a ban on trade with Israeli settlements “falls far short” of Britain’s obligations under international law. The UK announced last week that it would prohibit all imports from settlements in the occupied West Bank and bar companies from providing services to those settlements. The measures were also adopted by France and Canada. But a letter signed by dozens of British lawyers and legal scholars said th