Gavin Grey: Europe Correspondent on the UK imposing sanctions on extremist settler groups in Gaza

The UK's announced a fresh wave of sanctions against extremist settler groups in the West Bank. 

The measures target three outposts and four organisations which provide or promote support for violence against Palestinian communities. 

British Foreign Minister David Lammy says the inaction of the Israel Government has allowed an environment of impunity to flourish. 

Europe correspondent Gavin Grey told Ryan Bridge it's the third set of sanctions imposed since February. 

He says the previous Government had also been prepared to sanction two Israeli Ministers over comments about blocking aid to Gaza. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The UK is hitting extremist settler groups in the Wist
Bank with sanctions. Devin Gray's at UK You correspondent, Gavin
what's this about?

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Yeah, just been announced Ran that the UK Foreign Minister
David Lammy and this government here in the UK criticizing
the inaction of the Israeli government. Is the quote for
allowing impunity to flourish among the extremist settlers. What does
this mean? Well, it means, of course, the settlers who
are in the West Bank said to be conducting a
campaign of violence against the Palestinian communities in the occupied

(00:32):
territory and another quote from the speech henous abuses of
human rights against those Palestinian communities. So several outposts within
that area have been included in the sanctions, along with
four organizations. These are a religious school known to promote
violence against non Jews, a group which provides volunteers for

(00:52):
illegal outposts, a registered charity which provides financial support to
the settlements, and a construction company which is thought to
be one of the main construction companies in those disputed territories. Indeed,
it comes as the former Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron
revealed the previous government had also been preparing the sanction
to Israeli ministers over comments encouraging blocking aid to Gaza

(01:16):
very quickly.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
On this Novichok business, the Russian spy that the Russians
were trying to former Russian spy, the Russians were trying
to kill it in the UK twenty eighteen, that vial
of nov chop the poison quite quite a lot in
near by.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
The sounds of it, yeah, And it was left discarded
in a perfume bottle and then left in a bin.
Somebody picked it up and thought it was a very
expensive perfume, put it on themselves and sadly died. And
that's the inquiry that's going on at the moment now.
On hearing from special chemists and from those in the

(01:52):
field saying there was enough of this nerve agent Novichok
to kill thousands of people. It really is quite something
that masive take a deep breath, doesn't it the idea
that enough was being brought into the country to do that.
And in this terribly sad inquiry, her mother has described
the victim as intelligent, extremely selfless and a very kind
person and saying she took comfort from the fact nobody

(02:14):
else died.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah, well absolutely, Gavin, thank you for that. Gavin Gray
are UK europe correspondent. I suppose it's insurance, isn't it.
It takes take enough to kill a thousand people and
even though you only need get one or two For more.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
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