India, Aug. 20 -- The UK Government has summoned Israel's Charge d'Affaires to lodge protest against the Israeli Government's launch of a tender for a major settlement project in the E1 area of the occupied West Bank.
Daniela Grudsky Ekstein, who leads Israel's diplomatic mission in London, was summoned on Wednesday to the Foreign Office, which demanded an immediate reversal of the move by the Netanyahu government.
Also on Wednesday, Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband called his Israeli counterpart Gideon Saar and made clear that the Israeli Government must halt E1 settlement plans immediately, retract the tender and stop all settlement expansion.
He said the Israeli Government's publication of a tender for the E1 settlement project is an una...