Israelis hit streets to protest Netanyahu’s West Bank annexation plan
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Thousands of Israelis demonstrated on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to extend sovereignty over parts of the occupied West Bank.
The protesters raised placards condemning the Israeli occupation and Israeli violations against the Palestinians and their rights under the banner “no to annexation, no to occupation, yes to peace and democracy.”
The Palestinians want an independent state in the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, territories Israel occupied in a 1967 Middle East war.
Netanyahu has set July 1 as the target date to begin advancing his plan to annex Israel’s settlements and the Jordan Valley in the West Bank.
U.S. President Donald Trump in January unveiled a peace plan which includes Israel keeping its settlements and the Palestinians establishing a state under stringent conditions.
Palestinians have rejected the proposal and voiced outrage against Israel’s proposed annexation.
Some European and Arab states, together with the United Nations, have urged Israel to step back from the plan to annex its settlements, regarded by many countries as illegal.
In 1967, Israel launched a war against its neighbours and took control of the parts of Palestine which it had failed to capture during its 1948 War of Independence.
On 5 June 1967, Israel launched a pre-emptive strike against Egypt, Jordan, Iraq and Syria. After knocking out the air defences of these countries, it occupied East Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, as well as the Syrian Golan Heights and Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. Thus, it had taken control of the final 22 per cent of historic Palestine that it wasn’t able to occupy in 1948.
Thousands of Israelis demonstrated on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to extend sovereignty over parts of the occupied West Bank.
The protesters raised placards condemning the Israeli occupation and Israeli violations against the Palestinians and their rights under the banner “no to annexation, no to occupation, yes to peace and democracy.”
The Palestinians want an independent state in the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, territories Israel occupied in a 1967 Middle East war.
Netanyahu has set July 1 as the target date to begin advancing his plan to annex Israel’s settlements and the Jordan Valley in the West Bank.
U.S. President Donald Trump in January unveiled a peace plan which includes Israel keeping its settlements and the Palestinians establishing a state under stringent conditions.
Palestinians have rejected the proposal and voiced outrage against Israel’s proposed annexation.
Some European and Arab states, together with the United Nations, have urged Israel to step back from the plan to annex its settlements, regarded by many countries as illegal.
In 1967, Israel launched a war against its neighbours and took control of the parts of Palestine which it had failed to capture during its 1948 War of Independence.
On 5 June 1967, Israel launched a pre-emptive strike against Egypt, Jordan, Iraq and Syria. After knocking out the air defences of these countries, it occupied East Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, as well as the Syrian Golan Heights and Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. Thus, it had taken control of the final 22 per cent of historic Palestine that it wasn’t able to occupy in 1948.
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