Overview
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the question of politically annexing parts of the West Bank remains under discussion, while asserting Israeli security control over the area will continue.
- German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called for Israel to refrain from any formal, political, constructional or de facto steps that would amount to annexation of the West Bank.
- The chancellor’s remarks were issued as an official German cabinet statement following his visit to Jordan and talks with King Abdullah II.
- Merz and King Abdullah II share the view that the conflict is best resolved through the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
- In recent months Israel’s Knesset advanced measures related to extending sovereignty to the West Bank, and U.S. President Donald Trump told Time that Washington would not permit such annexation.