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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. 

How companies profit from the illegal settlements

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