Norway condemns Israeli decision to ‘legalise’ settlement outposts

Norway condemns Israel’s decision to “legalise” five settlement outposts in occupied Palestinian territory, Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said on Thursday.

Israel last week said it was going to legalise five outposts in the West Bank and was advancing plans for constructing further settlements in the territory, among those Palestinians seek for an independent state.

Barth Eide added that Norway found it “totally unacceptable” that Israel had also decided to advance the...