Netanyahu Announces Plan to Annex Parts of Occupied West Bank
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised Tuesday to annex a large section of the occupied West Bank should he win reelection next week. “Today, I announce my intention, after the establishment of a new government, to apply Israeli sovereignty to the Jordan Valley and the northern Dead Sea,” Netanyahu The 927-square-mile Jordan valley comprises about 30 percent of the West Bank, which Israel captured during the Six Day War in 1967. Palestinian prime minister Mohammad Shtayyeh called Netanyahu “a prime destroyer of the peace ...
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