The deputy US ambassador to the United Nations has stressed that President Donald Trump will not allow Israel to annex any part of the West Bank.
Speaking during a UN Security Council session, she added that Trump expects an end to the violence in the West Bank.
“The United States remains focused on keeping Israel secure and Gaza and the West Bank stable,” Jennifer Locetta told the UN Security Council early yesterday.
“President Trump has been perfectly clear that the United States expects the violence in the West Bank to end, and that the United States will not allow the annexation of the West Bank,” she added.
The West Bank is home to 2.7 million Palestinians who have limited self-rule under Israeli military occupation. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis have settled there.
Most world powers deem Israel’s settlements, on land it captured in a 1967 war, illegal, and numerous UN Security Council resolutions have called on Israel to halt all settlement activity.
Israel denies the illegality of the settlements, citing biblical and historical connections to the land.
Separately, the Israeli military said it planned to demolish several structures in the northern Nur Al Shams refugee camp, a long-standing camp in the West Bank outside the city of Tulkarm.
Palestinian media reported the mayor of Tulkarm had condemned the move as ‘a fully-fledged crime’.
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