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Norway's foreign minister defended a decision to sanction Israeli settlements as 'the right thing to do' despite fears of Israeli retaliation against Oslo's aid role for Palestinians. Separately, US Senate Democrats announced plans to introduce legislation sanctioning individuals involved in Israel's controversial E1 West Bank settlement project, which critics say would bisect Palestinian territory, while it emerged that US officials had drafted, but never released, a memo condemning the UK's West Bank trade ban. Together these moves reflect intensifying, if uneven, international pushback against Israeli settlement expansion, with European and some US lawmakers pursuing sanctions even as the Trump administration internally resisted publicly opposing such measures.