GENEVA: The United Nations has added nearly 70 more companies to a blacklist of companies from 11 countries that it says are complicit in violating Palestinian human rights through their business ties to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The new list spotlights companies that do business that’s deemed supportive of the settlements, which are considered by many to be illegal under international law. It includes an array of companies like vendors of construction materials and earth-movers, as well as providers of security, travel and financial services.

GENEVA: The United Nations has added nearly 70 more companies to a blacklist of companies from 11 countries that it says are complicit in violating Palestinian human rights…

UN adds 70 companies to blacklist complicit in violating Palestinian rights through ties to Israeli settlements.

The list contains 158 companies — the vast majority Israeli. The others are from the U.S., Canada, China, Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

Report exposes global firms profiting from Israel’s unlawful settlement enterprise in the occupied West Bank.