前总检察长多米尼克·格里夫表示，以色列无权关闭位于被占领巴勒斯坦领土上的该机构。
前总检察长多米尼克·格里夫已告知英国外交部，以色列没有法律依据执行其关闭东耶路撒冷英国领事馆的计划。
Former attorney general Dominic Grieve says Israel is not entitled to shut mission in occupied Palestinian territory Israel does not have a legal right to act on its plan to close the British consulate in East Jerusalem, the former attorney general Dominic Grieve has advised the UK Foreign Office.
以色列表示，鉴于外交大臣埃德·米利班德本月宣布全面禁止与以色列定居点商品进行贸易，以色列打算于10月8日关闭该领事馆。
Israel has said it intends to shut the consulate on 8 October in response to the sweeping ban on trade with goods from Israeli settlements announced by the foreign secretary, Ed Miliband, this month.