On the evening of Wednesday 3 July, the European Union condemned plans to legalise five Israeli settlement outposts and the announcement of thousands of new housing units in the West Bank. The outposts of Evyatar, in the north of the West Bank, Sde Efraim and Givat Asaf, in the centre, and Heletz and Adorayim, in the south, should be legalised.
In a statement, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, also strongly condemned the...