UK Foreign Minister David Lammy says he’s troubled by Israel’s behavior in the occupied West Bank. Palestinian towns and homes there are routinely attacked by Israeli settlers, and the Israeli army does little if anything to stop them.

The decision by Western governments friendly to Israel was a sharp rebuke of Israel’s settlement policies in the West Bank and of settler violence, which has spiked since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack ignited the war in the Gaza Strip.