**Israel forces 20 British diplomats out of East Jerusalem amid diplomatic standoff**

British diplomatic personnel are leaving the nearly 200-year-old consulate following Israel’s retaliation against London’s sanctions on illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.

The consul general is among those departing, while just seven diplomats will remain under a last-minute arrangement that renames the consulate the “UK Mission, Jerusalem.”

Britain insists Israel has no legal authority to shut down its diplomatic presence in occupied East Jerusalem.

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