Blinken cancels his predecessor's policy and announces that the settlements in the West Bank are against international law. This is a change in relation to the policy announced by the previous Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in 2019, according to which the settlements do not necessarily constitute a violation of the law.
The Shalom Now organization issued a statement saying: "The decision to promote thousands of unnecessary and harmful housing units in the settlements is a hasty and irresponsible decision by an extremist government that lost the people's trust a long time ago"