Published: 28 April 2020
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Netanyahu 'confident' Trump's settlement annexation pledge will be fulfilled within months (Haaretz)
'Trump pledged to recognise Israel's sovereignty over Jewish communities' in the West Bank, Israeli leader tells an evangelical crowd, after a unity government deal includes plans to promote annexation
UK, EU states warn Netanyahu-Gantz government against West Bank annexation (Haaretz)
France's UN Ambassador said annexation 'would not pass unchallenged'; Israel: EU statement does not represent member states
Netanyahu’s annexation plan is a threat to Israel’s national security (Foreign Policy)
Annexing the West Bank would threaten Israel’s peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan, anger allies in the Gulf, undermine the Palestinian Authority, and endanger Israel as a Jewish democracy.
The agreement between Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and Benny Gantz’s Blue and White bloc sets July 1 as the date when unilateral Israeli annexation of large chunks of West Bank territory, a significant element of the Trump plan, kicks in. If their joint government acts accordingly, the plan’s other features will be rendered irrelevant.
Israel rebuffs EU over criticising West Bank annexation goal (Al-Monitor)
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz took issue with EU foreign representative Josep Borrell warning against possible annexationist policies of a new Israeli government despite his not obtaining the backing of all European Union states.
Jordan urges foreign governments to discourage Israel from annexing West Bank (Axios)
Barak Ravid: Jordan is lobbying foreign leaders to put pressure on the new Israeli government not to move forward with annexation of the Jordan Valley — the settlements and other parts of the West Bank
When it comes to annexation, Netanyahu alone holds the key (Haaretz)
With Gantz serving as the latest excuse not to go through with it, will Netanyahu once again choose not to annex the West Bank?
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UN envoy tells Israeli-Palestinian memorial ceremony: ‘you’re a source of inspiration to us all' (Haaretz)
'There are people who want to burn all bridges between Israelis and Palestinians. What you are doing is going against that,' says Mladenov; event has been criticised by politicians and right-wing activists, who claim it supports terrorism
Photo: Protesters post a placard that reads 'Jerusalem is the eternal capital of Palestine' in the West Bank village of Bilin, January 2020 (APs/Nasser Nasser)
