PARIS (Reuters) – France, Germany, Britain, Italy and Spain are deeply concerned at Israeli plans to build new settler homes in the West Bank, the countries said in a joint statement on Friday.
“We are deeply concerned by the decision taken by the Israeli authorities to advance more than 4,900 settlement building units in the occupied West Bank,” the joint statement said.
(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta and Christian Lowe; editing by John Stonestreet)
