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[a] The consulate is located in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem. [1] In February 2021, the British Consul-General in Jerusalem, Philip Hall, condemned settlements in the West Bank as "illegal and an obstacle to restarting peace talks" between Israel and Palestine. [2]
There was no Consul-General during World War I since the UK was an enemy of the Ottoman Empire. After the war and until 1948, Palestine was a British mandate territory, with District Commissioners. [1] 1948–1951: Sir Hugh Dow [2] 1951–1953: Herbert R. Gybbon-Monypenny [2] 1957–1959: Andrew C. Stewart [2] 1959–1962: James M. Walsh [2]
Having consulates-general in Jerusalem not accredited to any foreign government is a result of the unresolved issue of the status of Jerusalem.Under the United Nations Partition Plan of 1947, Jerusalem was to become a corpus separatum under international control, separate from both the Jewish state and the Arab one whose creation the partition plan envisaged; that would have logically entailed ...
Diane Corner. Diane Louise Corner CMG OBE (born 29 September 1959) is a British diplomat who served as the British Consul General in Jerusalem from 2021 until 2024. [1] She was previously the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General of MINUSCA between 2014 and 2017.
On 17 October 2016, Hall was appointed as the British Consul-General to Jerusalem. [2] Hall took up the appointment in August 2017, succeeding Alastair McPhail. [3]In February 2021, Hall condemned Israeli settlements in the West Bank as "illegal and an obstacle to restarting peace talks".
He had served as consul-general from 16 March 2011. [1] [2] McPhail left South Sudan in March 2013 [3] [4] and was appointed to be British Consul-General in Jerusalem from January 2014. [5] He was replaced in Jerusalem in 2017 and was appointed to be ambassador to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia from January 2019. [6]
Paraguay's embassy was briefly located in Jerusalem in 2018, then returned to the Tel Aviv District after a few months. Papua New Guinea followed in 2023. Paraguay returned its embassy to Jerusalem in December 2024. Eight countries operate consulates-general in Jerusalem accredited to the Palestinian territories.
The UK has a non-accredited Consulate General in Jerusalem that "represents the UK government in Jerusalem, West Bank, and Gaza", and works on "political, commercial, security and economic interests between the UK and the Palestinian territories". [2] Husam Zomlot became head of the Palestine Mission to the United Kingdom in 2018.