class="YtLlr aHS+3 V-v0y fm7dv _8teMo _5pKBM" data-component="Text">Earlier this week the governments of Germany, Italy, France, the United Kingdom and United States issued a joint statement denouncing Israel's plan to push ahead with construction of 10,000 settlement units and begin a process to authorise nine settler outposts in the occupied Palestinian territory. "The United Nation's special rapporteur on the Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese criticised the language used by the United States and others, saying "the construction of colonies in occupied land constitutes a war crime, not a 'unilateral measure'". This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced