ISRAEL’S settler movement is treating Palestine “like its own biblical theme park,” MPs heard yesterday after a Commons committee refused to hold a debate on continuing land seizures.

Conservative MP Sir Desmond Swayne condemned “increasingly militant” Israelis after homes in the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran were knocked down on Wednesday.

A villager and a police officer were killed amid violence sparked by the demolition in southern Israel.

Last month, the UN security council adopted a resolution demanding a halt to the construction of illegal settlements.

Mr Swayne said: “With the back-bench committee’s decision and the destruction of Umm al-Hiran, is there a possibility of a government statement on what appears to have been a significant shift in government policy over very recent days, as we cosy up to [Donald Trump], in granting complete impunity to Israel?”

Labour MP Helen Goodman described the suffering of the Palestinians that she saw on a visit to the Israeli-occupied West Bank two weeks ago.

She said: “Their houses are being demolished, and I met a young man whose family had lost 18 trees, which are now being sold on the internet for £30,000.”

Palestine Solidarity Campaign director Ben Jamal told the Star that firm action is needed, now that MPs from all parties are becoming increasingly concerned over the inflicted displacement and violence.

“It is time for the British government to stop talking about settlements as illegal and an obstacle to peace and to start treating them as such,” he said.

“We call on the government to review all of its financial relationships with Israeli settlements and to ban the importation of settlement produce into the UK.”

In a reply to the MPs, Commons Leader David Lidington said: “The government policy on Israel and Palestine [of supporting a two-state solution] has not changed.”

The government has for decades claimed to support a twostate solution while backing and arming Israel.