Israel has complained about the EU's inclusion of parts of the town of Modi'in-Maccabim-Reut on a blacklist of "settlements."
The European Commission on 3 August added three postal codes in the town to a register of over 500 codes relating to "Israeli settlements located within the territories brought under Israeli administration since June 1967."
The designation refers to Palestinian land annexed after the so-called Six-Day War in a move considered by EU countries to violate bin...
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