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Palestinians welcome UN's list of companies complicit in illegal Israeli expansion
Israeli forces clash with Palestinians during a protest against President Donald Trump's Mideast initiative in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on Tuesday

PALESTINIANS slammed today the multibillion-dollar companies exploiting the illegal Israeli settlement project after the United Nations released a list of 112 companies profiting from the colonialist enterprise.

Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia and Motorola were among the global firms named in the long-awaited list which the UN was mandated to prepare by the Human Rights Council in 2016.

Release of the database was welcomed by the Palestine Liberation Organisation. 

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