Trump lifts decades-old funding ban on Israeli West Bank settlements, drawing ire of Palestinians

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President Trump has lifted a ban on the funding of research in Israeli settlements in the West Bank, prompting an immediate reaction from the Palestinian side which slammed the US for backing the “occupation” of their land.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman have on Wednesday signed an agreement enabling US government funding of research conducted in Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

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