§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make representations to the Israeli Government, over the use of tear gas and rubber bullets by their security forces to disperse Palestinian women, who staged anti-occupation marches on the West Bank and in Arab East Jerusalem to coincide with International Women's Day.
§ Mr. WaldegraveWe regularly remind the Israelis of our concern about their excessive use of force in suppressing manifestations of the intifada in the occupied territories.
§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he has had, or intends to have, with the Israeli Government on its policy on the establishment of further Jewish settlements in the occupied territories.
§ Mr. WaldegraveThe Israeli Government are well aware of our view, expressed by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister in her speech to the Board of Deputies of British Jews on 18 February, that the Jewish settlements in the occupied territories, including east Jerusalem, are illegal.