US President Joe Biden’s administration said Wednesday that Israel’s control of the West Bank is indeed “occupation” clarifying its position after it recently released a report that avoided using the term and adopted language used by the previous administration of Donald Trump.
The State Department’s annual report on human rights “does use the term ‘occupation’ in the context of the current status of the West Bank” State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters.
“This has been the longstanding position of previous administrations of both parties over the course of many decades” he said.
“It is a historical fact that Israel occupied the West Bank Gaza and the Golan Heights after the 1967 war” Price added.
