Days before, the PA imposed a new lockdown in several governorates in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and extended a curfew in force in the evenings and weekends throughout the territory to combat a surge in novel coronavirus infections.
Bahrain and the UAE formalised ties with Israel on Sept. 15, in a U.S.-sponsored deal billed by the Gulf states as being made possible by Israel’s shelving of a plan to annex West Bank settlements.
Under European Union guidelines, settlement products should be clearly labelled as such when exported to EU member countries.