"US Reverses Policy, Declares Israeli Settlements in West Bank Illegal"

The Biden administration has reversed the Trump administration's policy on Israeli settlements in the West Bank, declaring them "inconsistent with international law." This decision comes in response to reports of planned settlement expansion by the far-right Israeli government and is part of a series of measures expressing the administration's growing discomfort with Israeli actions in Gaza and the West Bank. The move aligns the U.S. with previous administrations and returns policy to where it had been since 1978, reaffirming the position that Israeli settlements on occupied territory are illegal.