The Brussels City Council has halted the public procurement of products from illegal Israeli settlements, after a motion was unanimously adopted late last night.
The motion asks the local authority to ensure that its purchases do not benefit companies working in conditions that do not respect international law, human rights or environmental law.
In 2015, the EU issued new guidelines for the labelling of products from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Under international law, all settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories are considered illegal, but Israel continues to press on with plans to expand them.
Last week, Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich declared 800 hectares (1,977 acres) in the occupied West Bank as state land, in a move that will facilitate the use of the ground for settlement building.
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