US President Donald Trump said Thursday that he would not allow Israel to annex the West Bank, rejecting the calls of certain far -right politicians in Israel who wish to extend sovereignty over the region and stifle the hopes of a Palestinian state.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has faced allied pressure to annex the West Bank, which made the alarm among the Arab leaders, some of whom met Tuesday with Trump on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
“I will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank. No, I will not allow it. This will not happen,” Trump told journalists in the oval office.
“There was enough. It’s time to stop now,” he said.
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France, Great Britain, Canada, Australia and Portugal are among the countries that have recognized a Palestinian state in recent days, in part to help maintain the possibility of a living solution. Israel condemned movements.
Trump made the comments while Netanyahu arrived in New York to say an address to the United Nations on Friday.
Netanyahu’s office said Prime Minister would wait until his return to Israel to contact Trump’s remark. They extend deeply into the territory with a system of roads and other infrastructures under Israeli control, more cutting the ground.
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An Israeli regulation plan largely condemned under the name of Project E1, which would bison the occupied West Bank and do it from East Jerusalem, received final approval in August. It will cut through the land that the Palestinians are looking for a state.
The Israeli Minister of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich, ultra-nationalist of the right-wing coalition that keeps Netanyahu in power, said at the time that a Palestinian state “was erased from the table”.
Most of the international community considers the Israeli colonies in illegal West Bank under international law.
Israel challenges this, citing historical and biblical ties with the region and affirming that the colonies offer strategic depth and security.
Gaza Deal Talks
While international leaders meet at the United Nations in New York, the United States presented a 21-point peace plan in the Middle East in order to end the almost two year war in Gaza between Israel and the Palestinian Militant group of Hamas.
He was shared with leaders and officials of Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Indonesia and Pakistan on Tuesday, according to American special envoy Steve Witkoff.
Trump, who remains Israel’s most faithful ally on the world scene, said he spoke with representatives of the Middle East nations and Netanyahu on Thursday and that an agreement on Gaza could soon occur.
“We want the hostages to come back, we want the bodies to come back and we want to have peace in this region. So we have had very good discussions,” he said.
Israel has attracted the global condemnation of his war in Gaza, which approaches the two-year brand, who are constantly in sight. The conflict caused a major destruction and killed more than 65,000 Palestinians, according to local health authorities.
A global hunger instructor indicates that part of the territory suffers from famine.
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On the ground, Israeli forces progressed more deeply in the city of Gaza on Thursday and the Israeli strikes killed at least 19 people in Gaza, local health authorities announced.
International efforts also continue to send help to help civilians because Israel is more and more isolated.
Italy and Spain deployed naval ships on Thursday to help an international flotilla that was attacked in the drone while trying to provide help to Gaza. The Global Sumud Flotilla uses approximately 50 civilian boats to try to break the naval blocking of Israel of Gaza.
