Verbal dispute at European-Israeli meeting

According to Walla News' report, a European-Israeli diplomatic meeting resulted in a verbal dispute while trying to discuss the situation in the occupied West Bank and the treatment of Palestinians.

The report states that the British-led European diplomatic delegation that arrived in Jerusalem (al-Quds) meant to protest against the treatment of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, claiming concerns about violence by Zionist settlers against them. The diplomats also stressed their objections to illegal Zionist settlement building plans and other issues.

Last October, Israel released its plans to build more than 3,000 new illegal settlement units in the West Bank. U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price condemned the plans, labeling the project as "completely inconsistent with efforts to lower tensions and to ensure calm, and damages the prospects for a two-state solution."