Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's pledge to annex the occupied West Bank has been condemned by Arab leaders
Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu pledges to annex Jordan Valley in Occupied West Bank if reelected.: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to annex a large part of the occupied West Bank if he wins next week’s election. Arab leaders condemned Netanyahu’s proposal, which was branded as a major blow to the peace process with Palestinians.
In a televised speech on Tuesday, Netanyahu said he would “apply Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and northern Dead Sea” as well as all Jewish settlements in the West Bank, if he wins the election next Tuesday. Polls suggest his right-wing Likud party is level with the centrist Blue and White alliance.
Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for the UN secretary general Antonio Guterres, condemned the announcement as “devastating” for the peace process, adding: “Any Israeli decision to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration in the occupied West Bank is without any legal international effect.”: Israel captured the West Bank in 1967, and its continued military occupation and construction of 140 settlements in the region sits at the core of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Netanyahu said his pledge to also annex Jewish settlements in the West Bank, which he made in April’s election campaign, would have to wait until the White House unveiled its long-awaited proposals for a peace deal. White House special envoy Jared Kushner, who is also Trump’s son-in-law, unveiled an economic plan for the Palestinian people in June and is expected to release a peace plan proposal later this year.
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