Google Maps removes Palestine from the app's geolocation feature.
Google Maps has made Palestinian territories available only as dotted lines within Israel. The Palestinian Embassy, located in Brasília, criticized the initiative.
247 Palestine no longer appears as a location on Google Maps, which now only shows the territories as dotted lines within Israel. The 1993 Oslo Accords recognize the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem as Palestinian territories. Less than a month ago, the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) withdrew from agreements signed with Israel and the United States following Tel Aviv's intentions to annex territories in the West Bank.
Located in Brasília (DF), the Palestinian Embassy criticized Google Maps' policy. "It seems that US/Israeli colonization continues. Land theft tactics that served the US so well in eliminating its indigenous peoples have been repeated in the Middle East," it wrote, according to reports published in [source missing]. Metropolis website.
"First, make a peace treaty after stealing some land. Then, call the people you called hostile or terrorists. Break the treaty you made and then gather the affected population into camps or reservations. Then tell the world that it's a done deal and the people you stole from were just savages," he added.