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Trump requested Netanyahu for brand new West Bank coverage

US President Donald Trump and his high advisers have referred to as on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to vary coverage within the occupied West Bank, the place over the previous three years his far-right authorities has promoted insurance policies which have weakened the Palestinian National Authority (PA) by defunding it, expanded settlements, legalized outposts, forcibly displaced Palestinians and brought steps towards annexation. This was reported by the Axios web site, citing two sources conversant in the assembly that passed off yesterday in Florida, throughout which the White House warned of the danger {that a} violent escalation within the West Bank may undermine efforts to implement the peace settlement for the Gaza Strip and forestall the enlargement of the Abraham Accords earlier than the tip of Trump’s mandate.

According to the sources, Trump and his advisers requested Netanyahu to keep away from provocative actions and to “restore calm.”

The sources mentioned the difficulty was mentioned each through the preparatory assembly Netanyahu had with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, US envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, and through the assembly with Trump. Meetings by which settler violence in opposition to Palestinian civilians, the monetary instability of the PA and the enlargement of Israeli settlements have been mentioned.

According to the United States, altering course within the West Bank is essential to the restoration of Israel’s relations with European nations and, hopefully, to develop the Abraham Accords. “Netanyahu has been very tough on settler violence and has said he will take further action,” a supply mentioned.

In the press convention after the assembly with Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago, Trump mentioned he had had “a long conversation about the West Bank”, specifying: “I wouldn’t say we agree 100% on the West Bank, we haven’t reached an agreement, but we will get there.”