{"id":31016,"date":"2025-09-22T13:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T13:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/31016\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T13:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T13:09:11","slug":"european-officials-warn-israel-over-west-bank-annexation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/31016\/","title":{"rendered":"European officials warn Israel over West Bank annexation\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary\">European officials have reportedly warned Israel not to annex parts of the occupied\u00a0West Bank\u00a0in retaliation for Western countries recognition of Palestinian statehood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The\u00a0UK, Australia and Canada all formally recognised Palestinian statehood\u00a0on Sunday, in a historic move that put three major US allies at odds with the Trump administration and drew an immediate, angry response from Israel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Israeli Prime Minister\u00a0Benjamin Netanyahu denounced the recognition and said \u201cwe doubled Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) and we will continue on this path\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The Israeli far-right finance minister,\u00a0Bezalel Smotrich, and\u00a0Itamar Ben-Gvir, the far-right national security minister, called for wholesale annexation of the occupied West Bank in response to the declarations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The UK\u2019s foreign secretary,\u00a0Yvette Cooper, told the BBC\u00a0that she has warned Israel not to annex parts of the West Bank in response to the UK\u2019s recognition of Palestinian statehood,\u00a0which has particular historic significance given the UK\u2019s role in the creation of Israel after the Second World War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"European officials have reportedly warned Israel not to annex parts of the occupied\u00a0West Bank\u00a0in retaliation for Western countries&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[63,42,26494,46,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-31016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-europe","tag-headlines","tag-increased-recognition-of-palestinian-statehood","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}