The US members of a committee that will map out areas of the West Bank that Israel may annex as part of US President Donald Trump’s peace plan have set out for Israel, Channel 12 news reported Sunday.
The United Nations Human Rights Council published a blacklist of companies operating in Israeli settler areas across Judea and Samaria, eastern Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights Wednesday, accusing them of raising ‘particular human rights concerns.’
Settler leaders in Israel this week are asking Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to ignore the US request to wait till after elections to annex areas of the Jordan Valley and West Bank and move ahead applying Israeli sovereignty to the historic land.
Israel has begun to draw up maps of land in the West Bank that will be annexed in accordance with U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed peace plan, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday.
Israel has seen a rash of terror attacks since Wednesday, with three isolated incidents occurring over a period of just 12 hours that left soldiers and police wounded, in the wake of Hamas’ call for a new Palestinian uprising.
The office of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said a major escalation in West Bank violence Thursday was the fault of US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan, which was unveiled last week.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday suggested that he would advance applying Israeli sovereignty to parts of the West Bank only after the March elections.
The EU rejected US President Trump’s Middle East peace plan Tuesday, opposing its annexation elements that Israeli leaders have vowed to implement within weeks and promising legal opposition to attempts by Israel to carry out Jared Kushner’s vision.
Palestinians can weigh in on the ‘Deal of the Century’ map, US envoy Jared Kushner told the Egyptian MBC Masr network in an interview, where he also spoke of the Trump administration’s plans to recognize Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein on Wednesday promised to ‘fast-track’ any bill proposed to annex parts of the West Bank in the aftermath of the unveiling of US President Donald Trump’s peace plan.
As tensions rose ahead of the publication of US President Donald Trump’s Israeli-Palestinian peace plan on Tuesday, the IDF beefed up its forces in the West Bank’s Jordan Valley region.
Palestinian leadership circled the wagons Tuesday against Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner’s long-awaited ‘Deal of the Century’ unveil, having previously called for a ‘day of rage’ and an ‘escalation of resistance’ against Israel for the plan.
The US administration of President Donald Trump will release its ‘Deal of the Century’ peace plan at twelve noon on Tuesday, in a move that has received surprising approbation from both leftist Israeli opposition leader Benny Gantz and Sunni Arab states Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
Palestinian factions on Sunday called for a ‘day of rage’ for the day US President Donald Trump releases his long-awaited plan for Mideast peace.
The Trump Administration may present its ‘Deal of the Century’ to the world as early as next week in a ceremony at the White House to which both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and main political rival Benny Gantz of the Blue and White Party have been invited.
The Western Wall belongs only to Muslims and must be defended even to the death, Palestinians living in the West Bank were told during a filler piece between programs on official Palestinian Authority TV and in a news article in the official PA newspaper.
Jordan’s King Abdullah II warned Wednesday that if Israel succeeds in imposing ‘an unthinkable solution’ by annexing parts of the West Bank, hopes for a two-state solution and Palestinian state would quickly come to an end.
Israel will grant permits to Christian Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to visit Jerusalem and the West Bank during Christmas ‘in accordance with security assessments,’ the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, a Defense Ministry body responsible for liaising with the Palestinians, said on Sunday.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday pledged to secure United States support for the annexation of the Jordan Valley and other West Bank settlements.
The Israel Electric Corporation said Wednesday it was continuing power cuts to several Palestinian cities in Judea and Samaria to press for payment of the $519 million owed by a Palestinian electricity company.