Canada and France among other countries also announced sanctions on Tuesday, adding up to 12 states in total. Now a senior member of Hamas’s political bureau, Dr Basem Naim, has responded to the intervention by Britain and other countries. The former minister of health said: “The United Kingdom and other European countries have imposed sanctions on goods imported from settlements in the occupied West Bank, and the British Foreign Secretary's use of the term ‘ethnic cleansing’ to describe the crimes committed by settlers are important steps in the right direction, but they are insufficient.” Naim urged the measures to be put...