BREAKING: Israeli PM Netanyahu announced plans to annex part of the West Bank—claiming he has Trump's support
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his plan to annex the Jordan Valley and the Northern Dead Sea area if he wins his re-election campaign next week, and will coordinate with President Donald Trump and his administration.
"I want to receive a clear mandate from you to apply Israeli sovereignty over all settlements. Out of respect to President Trump, I'll wait with the application of sovereignty until after the president presents his plan," Netanyahu said."I am waiting to do this in maximum coordination with Trump." The West Bank is a territory that sits between Israel and Jordan, and is home to around 2.5 million Palestinians and 400,000 Jewish Israelis. Jordan initially won the land during Israel's 1948 War of Independence, but Israel captured it during the 1967 Six-Day War but never annexed it into the country. So while Israel has technically had control of the territory for the past 52 years, there has been some controversy over who it truly belongs to.
In January, ahead of the most recent April election, Netanyahu also called a"dramatic announcement" in which he discussed investigations into multiple corruption cases that he and his wife are currently entangled in. Earlier this year, President Donald Trump announced his support for the Annexation of the Golan Heights, another territory that was long considered"occupied" by Israeli settlements.
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