European countries and Canada pile on pressure over Israel's plans to expand settlements in a strategically vital part of the occupied West Bank. Six European leaders decried Israel’s latest plan to expand settlements in the occupied West Bank as “unacceptable” and called on companies to refrain from bidding on construction tenders. Key points and original sources are listed below.

• European countries and Canada pile on pressure over Israel's plans to expand settlements in a strategically vital part of the occupied West Bank.S1

• Six European leaders decried Israel’s latest plan to expand settlements in the occupied West Bank as “unacceptable” and called on companies to refrain from bidding on construction tenders.S2

• The E1 plan was green-lit by Israel last year and would further separate east Jerusalem, occupied and annexed by Israel and predominantly inhabited by Palestinians, from the West Bank.S3

• France, Britain, Germany and Italy condemned on Thursday the Israeli government's opening for bids to build more than 1,200 homes in a controversial West Bank settlement plan approved last year.S4