US officials in Jerusalem and Washington draft a statement attributed to Secretary of State Marco Rubio condemning plans by the UK, France and Canada to block imports from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, but the statement is never released. Reuters reports that the draft statement is dated 8 September and that it is based on a document reviewed by the news agency.
According to the reporting, the draft is prepared in early September, with involvement described in both Jerusalem and Washington. The article also frames the issue as part of wider policy tensions around how countries treat goods originating from Israeli settlements. While both outlets refer to the same Reuters-documented account, they present it primarily as information about internal US diplomatic deliberations rather than as a finalized public US position.
