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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday the United States will not join Britain-led sanctions on trade with Israeli settlements and that it does not want anything to destabilize the West Bank.

"Obviously, we're not going to do what the UK did," Rubio told journalists of the sanctions before departing on a trip to Latin America, adding: "We don't want to see anything destabilising going on right now in the West Bank with so much going on in the region."

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar on Tuesday said that it was closing Britain's consulate in East Jerusalem accredited to the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank after London announced it was imposing sanctions on goods from Israeli settlements.

Saar also said Britain would no longer be able to allowed to participate in the US-led coordination mission for Gaza, that British training of Palestinian Authority forces in the West Bank would no be terminated, and that some elected UK officials and other nationals would be banned from entering Israel.

The UK has reaffirmed its support for a comprehensive and impartial process to examine allegations of genocide in Gaza, BBC reported.

British Foreign Minister Ed Miliband highlighted the high number of fatalities and noted that most of Gaza's population has been displaced.

He emphasised that international humanitarian law sets clear obligations, including ensuring civilians have access to food, medical care, and other essential supplies.

Addressing claims of genocide, Miliband said the UK's position remains that such allegations should be assessed through established legal procedures, with the courts leading the process. He added that the government continues to support the ongoing case before the International Court of Justice and will respect the court's eventual ruling.

Twelve countries including Britain, Canada and France on Tuesday said they would slap sanctions on trade with Israeli settlements in the West Bank, after increasing attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinian villages in the occupied territory.

"Today, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK confirm their intention to introduce national and support European restrictions on trade in goods with settlements which are illegal under international law, or that they are actively considering these and other measures, in accordance with their national procedures," the nations' foreign ministers said in a joint statement.

Britain will announce a trade ban on goods made in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank later on Tuesday, confirmed Pensions Minister Pat McFadden.

"The foreign secretary will make a statement to Parliament later today, and at the heart of the statement is the idea that the UK, along with many other countries, do not want to see the possibility of a two-state solution in Israel and Palestine being erased," McFadden told Times Radio when asked about how a trade ban would work.

A top official within the US-backed Board of Peace said on Monday that a failure to move forward in Gaza paired with rising violence in the West Bank are making a two-state solution "impossible".

"I would say that if Gaza continues the way it is now, or does not move into implementing... the plan that we have under the comprehensive plan, the two-state solution will become practically impossible," he said.

"Because, with everything that is happening in the West Bank, and with more than 50% of Gaza now under the control of the Israeli army and less than 50% under the control of Hamas, there is no credible pathway forward to a political resolution of the conflict," he added.

Germany asked the International Court of Justice on Monday to throw out a case brought by Nicaragua which accuses Berlin of violating the 1948 Genocide Convention because it supplies arms to Israel.

Berlin suspended weapons exports to Israel for a few months in 2025 but they have since resumed. A US-backed ceasefire that took effect in October 2025 halted large-scale fighting that had devastated Gaza, but it has not ended Israeli strikes.

Nicaragua and Germany are both signatories of the Genocide Convention which includes an obligation on states to act to prevent possible genocides — but it is unusual for the court to hear cases where neither party is directly involved in the conflict at the heart of it.

Israel on Monday threatened a "full-scale war" against the Palestinian Authority if it prepared an attack against Israeli forces or settlements similar to the one launched from Gaza on October 7, 2023.

"If... the Palestinian Authority's security mechanisms and related bodies initiate an attack in the style of October 7 against IDF forces and Jewish settlements — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and I have instructed the IDF to prepare for the opening of a full-scale war," Defence Minister Israel Katz said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the evacuation of some West Bank settlements deemed illegal under Israeli law, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Sunday.

"To my knowledge, Netanyahu has given the instruction to evacuate" certain settlements, Smotrich said, adding that he did not approve of the measure.

While all Israeli settlements in the West Bank are considered illegal under international law, some established without government approval — often consisting of just a few prefabricated homes — are also considered illegal by Israel.

Pakistan and seven other Muslim nations condemned Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz's statements regarding the forced displacement of the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.

The foreign ministers of Pakistan, Egypt, Turkiye, Indonesia, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates strongly reject and condemn of any attempts or plans aimed at displacing the Palestinian people under any pretext, the Foreign Office said in a statement.

The inflammatory statements and proposals by the Israeli ministers flagrantly violate principles of international law, including international humanitarian law, and pose a direct threat to the legitimate and inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, it added.