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West Bank: Mosques

Asked by Iqbal MohamedIndependentForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled Answered 27 April 2026UIN 126023

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of reports of Israeli settlers carrying out attacks on mosques in the West Bank, including incidents in Marda village and Al-Mu’arrajat; and what diplomatic steps her Department has taken to help prevent attacks on mosques in the West Bank.

Answered by Mr Hamish Falconer

I refer the Hon Member to the answers I gave on this issue in Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office oral questions on 3 March, and to the joint statement issued by the Foreign Secretary and fourteen of her overseas counterparts on 24 December 2025 condemning the approval by the Israeli security cabinet of 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/statement-on-israeli-settlement-expansion-in-the-west-bank.

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