3 resultsfor “countries opposing Israeli settlements in West Bank”
countries says, as its leaders call for an end to construction of Israeli settlements it says breach international law. In a [joint statement](https://www.gov.uk/government/news/joint-statement-from-the-leaders-of-the-e4-canada-australia-new-zealand-on-the-situation-in-the-west-bank) issued on Friday, Anthony Albanese and the leaders
settlements in the occupied West Bank, which are built on Palestinian land and violate international law. More recently, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right coalition government has succeeded in passing a death penalty
settlement building in the illegally occupied West Bank has accelerated, while many [international humanitarian NGOs have been banned](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/31/israeli-ban-on-aid-agencies-gaza-catastrophic-consequences) from the Palestinian territories. Following Hamas’s killing of 1,200 Israelis