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Tesco withdraws West Bank products

July 28, 2014 17:56
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ByDaniel Easterman, Daniel Easterman

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Tesco, the UK’s largest supermarket chain, says it will no longer sell products originating from the West Bank, starting this September.

A spokesman for the supermarket said the move was not "politically motivated" and not connected to the Gaza conflict.

The decision was part of a “regular product review process”, he said.

The only West Bank product currently stocked were dates - packaged in the territories but grown in Israel - and they were being pulled for “commercial reasons”, the spokesman said.