Hundreds of European lawmakers sign a letter condemning Israel’s plans to annex parts of West Bank. “Acquisition of territory by force has no place in 2020 and must have commensurate consequences.'
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reiterated Wednesday that decisions about extending sovereignty were for Israel to make and that the Palestinians had rejected the Trump administration’s Mideast peace deal “out of hand.”
The U.N. has been consistently conveying the message “that annexation would be not only against international law but it would be a major factor to destabilize the region,” he toldHis remarks came ahead of a high-level U.N. Security Council meeting on Wednesday where annexation was expected to be discussed.
Palestinian officials, however, disputed the Israeli police’s account of what happened to the man, identified as Ahmed Erekat. “This shooting is symptomatic of a brutal and racist system of structural violence that treats Palestinian lives and rights with abject disdain, considering the lives of our young men and women discardable.”
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