Select committee: Foreign Affairs Committee
Recommendation 13
1st Report - Israel-Palestine conflict
Published 25 Jul 2025
Addressed to Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
The Committee welcomes the sanctions that the Government has imposed on illegal outposts and violent Israeli settlers in the West Bank. Until these settlements are curtailed and the violence ends, these sanctions should be sustained and extended to all businesses operating in Israeli settlements in the West Bank. The Committee welcomes the sanctioning of companies and organisations that have facilitated the building of settlements and the Government should extend this to further companies and organisations who do such work. The Government must set out in its response to this Report the concrete action it is taking as a result of the International Court of Justice’s Advisory Opinion which was delivered over a year ago. (Recommendation, Paragraph 77) 53 The day after–and the weeks/months after that
From: Foreign Affairs Committee, 1st Report - Israel-Palestine conflict (HC 488), 25 July 2025
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 30 October 2025 (deadline 25 September 2025).
Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.The government agrees with most of the Committee's recommendations, partially agrees on arbitrary detention and on evidence-gathering in Gaza, and "notes" those on F-35 exports, a settlement goods ban and future sanctions.
- On recognition of Palestine, the government agrees with the recommendation and states that on 21 September the UK "officially recognised the state of Palestine as a sovereign and independent state".
- On F-35 exports, the government "notes" the recommendation, says the only exception to the suspension is parts for the global F-35 programme, and says it "will always act in line with domestic and international law".
- On arbitrary detention, the government agrees on establishing an Envoy but disagrees on the definition, saying there is "not a single internationally agreed definition".
- On a Gaza evidence-gathering project modelled on Ukraine, the government "does not agree that this particular model would work", citing the lack of a state partner or structures on the ground and challenges of access.