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Israel’s seven largest banks provide services to settlements, which are regarded as illegal under international law because they are built on Palestinian land occupied in 1967. (Shutterstock)

May 29th, 2018 - 08:18 GMT

Israeli Banks Financing Illegal Settlements

Israel’s banks are providing services that “help support, maintain, and expand unlawful settlements” by financing their construction in the occupied West Bank, a new report has revealed.

A Palestinian girl walks past a mural on a street in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 30, 2017, which marks Land Day. Land Day marks the killing of six Arab Israelis during 1976 demonstrations against Israeli confiscations of Arab land. (AFP/Said Khatib)

April 3rd, 2017 - 11:00 GMT

HRW: Israel blocking access to Gaza for rights workers investigating 2014 war

Protesters in Zurich call for Israel's suspension from FIFA. (AFP/File)

September 28th, 2016 - 09:00 GMT

Another FIFA controversy: HRW accuses football association of supporting Israeli settlements

The rights body warned that the practice by FIFA countered the human rights obligations, which it has pledged to uphold

September 26th, 2016 - 11:08 GMT

Human Rights Watch accuse FIFA of financially supporting Israel

Both international and local rights groups had urged Hamas not to carry out the executions. (Twitter)

May 31st, 2016 - 09:30 GMT

Hamas executes three Palestinians accused of murder in Gaza

This week's shipment of date bars, which began Monday, marked the first exports to the West Bank since 2007

March 7th, 2012 - 08:10 GMT