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Human Rights Watch Calls for Firms to Drop Business with Israeli Settlements

HeadlineJan 20, 2016

Human Rights Watch has called for all businesses to stop operating in, financing or doing business with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The group’s new report, titled “Occupation, Inc.,” also calls on countries like the United States to “[withhold] funding given to the Israeli government in an amount equivalent to its expenditures and related infrastructure in the West Bank.” The settlements have been deemed illegal under international law.

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