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Britain’s Jerusalem mission stays open, but its work with Palestinians is in doubt
On 8 October, 2026, Israel’s foreign minister, Gideon Sa’ar, announced that the British Consulate General in Jerusalem “ceases operations today”. Overnight, workers had taken down the plaque reading “British Consulate General” from the building in Sheikh Jarrah, Reuters reported. In a statement that day, Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband renamed it…