LONDON (AA) – Britain has condemned the recent statement by Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich proposing annexation of the occupied West Bank. “I condemn (Israeli Finance) Minister (Bezalel) Smotrich’s comments proposing annexation of land in the West Bank,” Hamish Falconer, the UK’s minister for the Middle East ...
ANKARA (AA) – France has condemned Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s call to annex the occupied West Bank. “France condemns the recent remarks of Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in favor of the annexation of the West Bank by Israel,” the French Foreign Ministry said in a statement. It recalled that those re...
ANKARA (AA) – Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have joined a wave of condemnations of a call by Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich to annex the occupied West Bank. In a statement, the Saud Foreign Ministry warned that Smotrich’s call “undermines peace efforts, including the two-state solution, encourages war, fuel extremism and threat...
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has declared plans to annex the occupied West Bank by 2025, urging officials to prepare for the move. Speaking to his Religious Zionist Party, Smotrich emphasized that applying Israeli sovereignty to the region, referred to as Judea and Samaria, would end the Palestinian statehood agenda. Smotrich expe...
LONDON (AA) – The UK government is considering imposing sanctions on two Israeli ministers in response to inflammatory comments supporting Israeli settlers in the West Bank who have carried out attacks on Palestinians. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer confirmed the government is “looking at that”, during Prime Minister’s Questio...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Finance Minister known for his radical right-wing Zionism Bezalel Smotrich has said that he is working to grant 500,000 illegal settlers in the occupied West Bank “the same rights of every citizens in Israel.” “I will continue to work with all my strength to allow the half million settlers who are […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has called for a deal with Hamas to bring back Israeli captives from Gaza. “Strike a deal, end the war, fix the country,” Lapid, the leader of the Yesh Atid party, said in a brief post on X. Israel has killed nearly 41,000 Palestinians in Gaza since […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) — In the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Kisiya family is trying to dismantle an illegal settlement outpost on land they own in the Al-Makhrour area near Bethlehem. Ever since Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced plans two weeks ago for the establishment of a new settlement in Bethlehem, which...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli security minister has said that “there will be no halt to the war” amid the US vice president’s call for a cease-fire in Gaza. The daily Haaretz reported earlier on Thursday that after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, US Vice President and presidenti...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has warned that the country’s leaders could face international prosecution and arrest warrants for crimes committed against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. In an article published by the Israeli daily Haaretz, Olmert said Israel would have no defense when accused of...
