Ed's Israel Visit

 The Labour leader, as he was getting close to the end of his visit, said Israel's strategy on settlements was "wrong and illegal".

Expanding Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank poses "a mortal threat to the two-state solution" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Ed Miliband has said.

He visited a Bedouin camp where inhabitants are among 2,300 Palestinians facing inevitable displacement.

Israel and the Palestinians still have this ongoing feud and have blamed each other for taking steps they believe breach ways of completely negotiations.

Mr Miliband, who has Jewish origins, made it extremely clear he does not back many, if not most actions that are undertaken by the Israeli government, particularly the increasing growth of the illegal settlements that contravene international law.

Mr Miliband said: "What I have seen today shows that the expansion of Israeli settlements on the Palestinian West Bank is not only wrong and illegal but represents a mortal threat to the two-state solution and to a successful outcome of the peace process.

Israel stole the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East war. Settlements it has built there are condemned by many and seen as illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this and openly continues to approve the construction of new homes for Israeli citizens. Palestinian leaders, justifiably, say the West Bank must form part of a future Palestinian state.