GENEVA – The United Nations has added nearly 70 more enterprises to a blacklist of businesses from 11 countries that he says is difficult to violate Palestinian human rights through their business ties with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The new list of lights that do business that are considered supportive for the settlements, which many people are considered illegal by many people. It contains a variety of companies such as suppliers of construction materials and earthquakes, as well as providers of security, travel and financial services. The list, formally known as a ‘database of companies’, now contains 158 businesses – the vast majority of Israelite. The other comes from the United States, Canada, China, Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. Newcomers on the list include the German building material business Heidelberg Materials, the supplier of the Portuguese rail systems, Steconfer, and Spanish transport engineering firm ineco. Among those still on the list are the travel sector businesses in the US Expedia Group, Booking Holdings Inc. and Airbnb, Inc., while 68 new businesses were added on Friday, seven were collected. A total of 215 businesses were assessed in this round, but hundreds of more could look in the future. The UN’s most important human rights body accepted a resolution almost a decade ago to create the list, and Israel has since sharply criticized it. The review may further isolate Israel at a time when some of its European allies recognized an independent Palestinian state of Israel’s actions of his war against Hamas in Gaza. This article was generated from an automated news agency feed without edits to text.
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