BRUSSELS (Dispatches) – A group of Belgian organizations have handed a petition to the country’s Minister of Economy, Pierre-Yves Dermagne, calling for a ban on trading with illegal Zionist settlements. The petition, presented by the National Centre for Development Cooperation, included 20,324 signatures. “While the new Israeli administration implements formal annexation of Palestinian lands, and allows settler violence, it is time to cut our financial supply to settlements by stopping trade with them,” the petition read. “If Belgium does not act now, when will it?” the groups asked.