Conversations on Vietnam Development
The following is my tweet in X about this issue.
About Jewish settlers in the West Bank:
The WH has set its sights on Israel’s settlers, a controversial movement that has grown in power over the years & is seen by the outside world as a major impediment to peace between Israel & the Palestinians.
Tiếp tục đọc “What to know about Jewish settlers in the West Bank and why they are so controversial”CNN’s Nima Elbagir reports from Hebron in the West Bank, which remains under Israeli occupation in the shadow of the war against Hamas in Gaza. Elbagir and her team witnessed how settlers and the Israeli military are working together and creating a culture of fear amongst Palestinian families, despite calls from President Biden for Israel to sanction “settler extremists.”
Al Jazeera, July 2, 2020
Several of Israel’s staunchest allies have criticised its annexation plans as jeopardising the status quo.
![A demonstrator holds a cane and a Palestinian flag during a protest against US President Donald Trump's "Middle East plan" in the Jordan Valley [Raneen Sawafta/Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2020/6/29/0f5a72d75d004827a3f5dc007ab471d6_18.jpg "Global reaction to Israel's imminent annexation plans")
Israel’s annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank has been fiercely criticised by not only Palestinians but by the international community at large.
The plan, which aims to annex all illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank – including the strategic Jordan Valley – amounts to one-third of the territory and is in line with US President Donald Trump’s so-called “Middle East plan,” which envisages a demilitarised Palestinian state on a patchwork of disjointed parts of the Palestinian territories.
Tiếp tục đọc “Global reaction to Israel’s imminent annexation plans”
Palestinians in Ramallah demonstrate against Israel’s plan to annex a third of the occupied West Bank and Jordan Valley.
![Palestinians have decried Israeli plans to annex parts of the West Bank and Jordan Valley as the end to a future Palestinian state [Majdi Mohammed/AP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2020/7/1/a4261542389345fa8bd60ce7f756f055_18.jpg "Israeli annexation a 'final nail in the coffin' of Palestine")
Ramallah, occupied West Bank – Despite a delay in the long-anticipated declaration of an Israeli plan to annex one-third of the already illegally occupied West Bank, including parts of the strategic Jordan Valley, Palestinians decried the plan with some holding protests in Ramallah and Gaza City.
Tiếp tục đọc “Israeli annexation a ‘final nail in the coffin’ of Palestine”
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