{UAH} Israel PM Netanyahu vows to annex occupied Jordan Valley

Israel PM Netanyahu vows to annex occupied Jordan Valley

• 10 September 2019

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Image copyright Reuters Image caption The Jordan Valley accounts for about one-third of the West Bank

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to annex part of the occupied West Bank if he is returned to office next week.

He would apply "Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and northern Dead Sea", a policy certain to be backed by the right-wing parties whose support he would need for a coalition.

Palestinian diplomat Saeb Erekat said such annexation moves would "bury any chance of peace".

Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967 but stopped short of annexation.

Mr Netanyahu, who leads the right-wing Likud party, is campaigning ahead of a general election next Tuesday. Polls suggest Likud is neck and neck with the opposition centrist Blue and White party, and may struggle to form a governing coalition.

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Palestinians claim the whole of the West Bank for a future independent state. Mr Netanyahu previously insisted Israel would always retain a presence in the Jordan Valley for security purposes.

What did Mr Netanyahu say?

"There is one place where we can apply Israeli sovereignty immediately after the elections," the prime minister said in a televised speech.

"If I receive from you, citizens of Israel, a clear mandate to do so... today I announce my intention to apply with the formation of the next government Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and northern Dead Sea."

Mr Netanyahu also said he would annex all Jewish settlements in the West Bank, but this would need to wait until the publication of US President Donald Trump's long-awaited plan for a peace agreement between Israelis and Palestinians.

The PM said Mr Trump's so-called Deal of the Century was likely to be published within days of the elections and warned that his Blue and White opponents would not be able to handle its policies.

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