JERUSALEM — The online travel company Booking.com stated Monday it prepares to include cautions to listings in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, endingupbeing the mostcurrent foreign business to wade into one of the world’s most controversial disputes.
Booking.com stated it would care consumers reserving lodgings in Israeli settlements that they were takingatrip to a “disputed, conflict-affected or high-risk” location that “may present higher dangers.”
The business informed The Associated Press that it was still working on the language of the security caution for the Israeli-occupied West Bank and a coupleof other areas around the world. It did not state when the alert would take result.
The relocation would come as violence increases in the West Bank, with raids by Israeli forces in cities and towns leaving at least 85 Palestinians dead so far this year. On Monday, the Israeli army stated a automobile came under fire as it passed by a Palestinian town in the northern West Bank. No injuries were reported.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry decreased to remark.
Most of the world thinksabout the settlements, developed on land Israel recorded in the 1967 Middle East war, to be a offense of global law. Some 700,000 Jewish inhabitants live in the inhabited West Bank and annexed east Jerusalem. The Palestinians lookfor these lands as parts of a future independent state.
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