29/December/2020 10:43 AM
Rights group calls on EU to support proposal for a wide ban of trade with and support for illegal settlements
RAMALLAH, Tuesday, December 29, 2020 (WAFA) – The Ramallah-based human rights organization, Al-Haq, yesterday sent letters to the High Representative of the European Commission, the Executive Vice President and European Union /EU/ Commissioner for Trade, and EU Member States with diplomatic representatives in the Occupied Palestinian Territory /OPT/, welcoming and calling on them to support the principled initiative of the 46 members of the European Parliament /MEPs/, representing most of the parliament’s political groups, to ban trade with, and support for, illegal settlements established in occupied territories.