Israel will launch a campaign of diplomatic and political pressure against the tourist company Booking.com to reverse its plans to issue a security alert for your list of tourist accommodation in the occupied West Bank, which includes deals on Israeli settlements.
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After the announcement of the measures planned by the company, the head of Israeli Tourism, Yoel Razvozov, decided to take steps to “exert political pressure” on Booking.com, which offers a list of tourist apartments in Palestinian towns and Israeli colonies on its website. in the West Bank, where tension and armed clashes between Palestinians and Israeli forces have increased in recent months.
Israel believes that the company’s decision is “political” and that the accommodations in the Jewish colonies are safe, so it will wage “a diplomatic war” against Booking.com to question its positions, Razvozov said these days, in a statements confirmed to Efe today by his spokesman.
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“Labeling places of accommodation in Judea and Samaria (biblical denomination of the West Bank) as a risk for security and in a context of violation of human rights is a sin against reality“, assured this week the Israeli Minister of Tourism.
This measure is “scandalous” and “we intend to use all the means at our disposal to reverse this situation,” added Razvozov, who has already sent a letter of complaint to the company.
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The company wants to issue alert notifications so that your clients are aware of “relevant local security considerations” in the West Bank if they plan to travel “to disputed, conflict-affected or high-risk areas.”
This warning is the same one that the company uses for its list of accommodations in Ukraine.
“The visit to the area can be accompanied by increased risk to security and human rights“, as well as “other risks for the local community and visitors”, Booking will warn in its notification on the West Bank, as reported by various media.
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The question of the offer of tourist accommodation by multinational companies in Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory has been controversial for several years.
In 2019, Amnesty International (AI) denounced both Booking and other tourism companies such as Airbnb, Expedia and Tripadvisor for include Israeli settlements in their listings of rental offers and activities. He claimed that this fueled “human rights violations against Palestinians” and the Israeli occupation.
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Labeling places of accommodation in Judea and Samaria is a sin against reality
In late 2018, Airbnb decided to delist accommodation located in West Bank settlements, but did not extend this limit to occupied eastern Jerusalem, where it has more than a hundred listings, earning it criticism from AI .
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According to the NGO, Booking has around fifty housing and hotel offers in settlements in Palestinian territory, under Israeli occupation since 1967, a measure considered illegal by most of the international community.
EFE
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