Anti-settlement NGO Peace Now will brief British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson on settlements on Wednesday during his first working visit to Israel.
After meetings with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and opposition leader Isaac Herzog on Wednesday morning Johnson is scheduled to travel to Nebi Samwil village on the northern outskirts of occupied Jerusalem where he will meet with Lior Amichai head of Peace Now’s settlement watch team.
After Nebi Samwil Johnson will head to Ramallah for meetings with Palestinian Authority officials and in the afternoon will return to occupied Jerusalem for a meeting with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset.
Britain was reportedly a key force behind the passage last December of the UN Security Council’s anti-settlement resolution 2334.
Nonetheless UK Prime Minister Theresa May openly criticized then-US secretary of state John Kerry for his parting speech on the Middle East in which he blasted the settlements.
The settlements May said “are far from the only problem in this conflict.”
