British MP: Israel’s Treatment of Palestinians in Hebron Equal to ‘Apartheid’

‘Israel’s treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank city of Hebron amounts to “apartheid,” a British MP has said, while government ministers have criticized Israeli government plans to expand Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Speaking during questions to Foreign Office ministers in the House of Commons, Desmond Swayne, the conservative MP who was the UK’s international development minister until earlier this year, asked the government for its opinion on the situation in Hebron, where Palestinians are barred from entering certain streets of the city.
Swayne asked minister Tobias Ellwood: “Has he walked the streets of Hebron, which Palestinians may not use? We used to call that apartheid.”‘
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