Ramallah: Palestinian Ministry of Economy exposed that, in cooperation with the competent authorities in the Palestinian National Authority, it has damaged products and goods of the Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank worth 60 Israeli Shekel, $15 million, over the past five years.
In a report in this regard, the Ministry of Economy declared that the settlements produce 146 brands in all sectors, including 40 food brands, 50 home appliance brands and 56 brands of varied industrial products.
After its heavy losses, a number of Israeli companies and factories have closed and moved into the occupied Palestine in 1948 to be able to export its products to the European States which boycott settlement's products.
The Ministry said that the settlement factories carried out product fraud, especially attires and shoes, and smuggled them to Palestine in order to circumvent the national campaign against the settlement products.
Minister of Economy, Abeer Odeh, called on the European Union to beware what Israel is doing of fraud operations for those products that originating in Israel, but which in fact manufactured in Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories within the 1967 borders, and are marketed under the slogan 'made in Israel'.
The national affords against the Israeli settlements are continued both on national and international levels, in addition to the Palestinian authority endeavors to convince the European Union to ban the import of these illegal products, Odeh said in a statement carried by the official Palestinian news agency.
In addition, the authority will deal with an iron fist with those who attempt to enroll those products to the Palestinian markets.
However, the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas adopted in 2010 the law of prohibiting and combating the products and services of the settlements established on the Palestinian territory and replacing them by Palestinian products in an attempt to provide better marketing opportunities for Palestinian goods.
QNA
