Norway condemns Israeli decision to 'legalise' settlement outposts

Norwegian FM says his country finds it "totally unacceptable" that Israel has also decided to advance the approval of 6,016 housing units for settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Thursday 04/07/2024

More illegal settlements

HELSINKI - Norway condemns Israel's decision to "legalise" five settlement outposts in occupied Palestinian territory, Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said on Thursday.

He added that Norway found it "totally unacceptable" that Israel had also decided to advance the approval of 6,016 housing units for settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Norway, which recognised Palestine as a state in May, has been a vocal supporter of a two-state solution to end the generations-old conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Interim peace accords were brokered in Norway in the 1990s.