Britain denounces Israel’s launch of tender for E1 settlement project, summons envoy
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Britain’s Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband speaks during a press conference with Spain’s Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares at the Palacio de Viana in Madrid, Spain, July 29, 2026. (Leon Neal/Pool Photo via AP)
Britain’s Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband condemns Israel’s move this week to launch a tender for the E1 settlement project and summons the country’s chargé d’affaires.
The E1 settlement project is a widely condemned Israeli settlement plan that would cut across land which the Palestinians seek for a state.
Miliband says he also made clear to Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar that “the Israeli government must halt E1 plans immediately, retract the tender and stop all settlement expansion.”
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
