US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman called on the Prime Minister of this country, Benjamin Netanyahu, to start preparing for the annexation of the Palestinian territories on the West Bank of the Jordan river. He stated this in an interview with The Jerusalem Post.
According to the diplomat, Israel must first inform the President of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas’s Declaration that his party was invited to talks on the marked in January terms of the “deal of the century,” the US President Donald trump. However, such negotiations are unlikely, as in Palestine, previously strongly rejected this plan.
After this, Friedman noted that Israel can Annex referred to in “the deal of the century” of the West Bank after July 1, 2020. The US Ambassador said that the final decision lies with Israel.
28 Jan trump presented a plan to resolve the conflict between Israel and Palestine, known as the “deal of the century”. According to the map, which showed the head of state, a Palestinian state should slightly increase in size, and its capital located in East Jerusalem.
The Palestinians and several Arab countries, this plan is not adopted: in their view, it deprives Palestinians of the right to those areas that are stipulated by the UN resolutions. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas plan is also rejected, saying that the Palestinians insist on recognition of their state in the 1967 borders with its capital in Jerusalem. On 1 February, he declared that breaks off all relations with USA and Israel.
Netanyahu in September 2019 promised to Annex settlements in the West Bank of the Jordan river in case his ruling Likud party would win the parliamentary elections. After that in the country political crisis associated with the inability to form a new government. On the establishment of a coalition government agreed in April due to pandemic coronavirus.
Since 1967 in Judea and Samaria on the West Bank of the Jordan river was founded by Israeli settlements. The UN security Council considers these territories occupied, Israel defines them as controversial.
