UN threatens to blacklist 150 companies for West Bank ties — report

The United Nations reportedly has sent letters to some 150 companies, threatening to add them to its blacklist of companies operating in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.

Senior anonymous Israeli officials, told the Haaretz daily that UN human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein sent the letters two weeks ago.

A number of the companies were said to have told Hussein in response they do not plan to renew existing contracts or to sign new ones.

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