G7 Foreign Ministers' Statement on the Situation in the West Bank (12 Jul. 2024)

The G7 joins the UN and the European Union in condemning the announcement by Israeli Finance Minister Smotrich that five outposts are to be legalised in the occupied Palestinian territory. We also reject the decision by the government of Israel to declare over 1,270 hectar of land in the occupied Palestinian territory as ‘state lands'- the largest confiscation of land since the Oslo Accords - and the announcement to expand existing settlements in the occupied Westbank by 6,016 new housing (…)