The Israeli settlement of Kharsina settlement in pictured in the West Bank city near of Hebron on November 19, 2019. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a US statement deeming Israeli settlement not to be illegal "rights a historical wrong". But the Palestinian Authority decried the US policy shift as "completely against international law". Both sides were responding to an announcement by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo saying that Washington "no longer considers Israeli settlements to be "inconsistent with international law". Photo by Mosab Shawer