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David Lammy is to call for an immediate ceasefire during talks with Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on his first visit to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories as the UK’s foreign secretary. Lammy will also raise the issue of Israeli settler violence in the West Bank when he meets Netanyahu. He is to meet the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, as well. You can read more about the diplomatic visit here.
The foreign secretary yesterday met with the secretary of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, Hussein Al-Sheikh, in Ramallah, a Palestinian city in the central West Bank.