UK MPs warn banks against E1 settlement funding ahead of trade ban

In the uncertain interval between political intention and legal enforcement, a group of British MPs has moved to close a window of opportunity — urging the country's financial institutions to withhold investment from Israel's E1 settlement project before formal trade restrictions reach the statute book. The appeal is not yet backed by law, but it is backed by the weight of what is coming: a sweeping UK ban on trade with illegal settlements, announced by the Foreign Secretary and expected to pass within months. At stake is not only the fate of 3,400 planned homes in a stretch of the West Bank l