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Palestine’s rival factions Fatah and Hamas held a rare meeting via video on Thursday to announce a new stage of joint national work to face Israel’s internationally-condemned annexation plan on the occupied West Bank.
In a statement on Thursday, it warned that Israel’s expansionist policy threatens peace in the region and violates international law and conventions.
This plan is illegal and contradicts international legitimacy resolutions.
The Arab Parliament (AP) rejected and condemned any plans or measures taken by Israeli occupation forces to annex the Jordan Valley, the northern Dead Sea and settlements, KUNA reported.
The Palestinian leadership proceeds with its international diplomatic contacts at all arenas and levels to prevent Israel from implementing its plan to annex Palestinian territories.
Egypt affirmed its steady and unchangeable stance towards the Palestinian cause, rejecting the Israeli unilateral move of annexation of the occupied lands in the West Bank and Jordanian Valley.
Egyptian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday condemned the Israeli government’s decision to allow the construction of new 3,500 units in illegal Israeli colonies in Palestine’s West Bank for violating international law, the ministry spokesman said in a statemen
Arab Parliament Speaker Mishaal bin Fahm al Salami expressed the parliament's categorical rejection of a Brazilian parliamentarian's visit to the Israeli settlement "Psagot" in the occupied West Bank.
Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister since 2009, considered the imposition of sovereignty over these areas as a major and historic step in Israel's history.
Israeli police stormed at dawn of Sunday Bab al Rahma prayer area inside Al Aqsa Mosque.
Palestinians threw a fire bomb at an Israeli police post at a site revered by Jews and Muslims in Jerusalem on Tuesday, and Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including one troops said attacked them with a knife.
Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian and wounded another in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he would eject a foreign force set up to help safeguard Palestinians.
An Israeli bus driver was injured when unidentified gunmen opened fire at a bus carrying settlers in the central West Bank city of Ramallah.
AL discusses Israeli escalations against Palestinians.
The Palestinian National Consensus Government held Israel full responsible for the deteriorating conditions in the occupied West Bank.
A Palestinian gunman killed two Israelis at a bus station in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, Israel's military said, after Israeli forces killed two Hamas fugitives who carried out earlier attacks.
Israeli commandos killed two fugitive gunmen overnight in the occupied West Bank and Hamas claimed them as its members on Thursday, a measure of the Palestinian Islamist faction's resilience in areas controlled by its more moderate rival Fatah.
A Palestinian opened fire on Sunday at a group of Israelis standing at a bus stop near a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank.
Trump has ordered the State Department to "redirect" more than $200 million in economic aid for projects in the West Bank and Gaza to programs elsewhere.