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UN envoys call on Trump to stop Israeli annexation
UN envoys call on Trump to stop Israeli annexation
"ANNEXATION" · 총 9건
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최근 7일 기준 88,811건을 분석한 결과, 뉴스 심리지수는 50.2(균형)입니다. 긍정 4,408건(5.0%)·중립 82,234건(92.6%)·부정 2,169건(2.4%)이며, 중립 비중이 뚜렷하게 높습니다. 성향 지수는 종합 14.7(중도 균형)입니다.
UN envoys call on Trump to stop Israeli annexation
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Israel’s hardline finance minister announced on Wednesday a major expansion by more than 2,000 homes of three Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank that Palestinians hope will be part of a future independent state. Most nations consider Israeli settlements there to be illegal under international law and a major obstacle to a two-state solution for long-term peace. Bezalel Smotrich, who holds authority over parts of Israel’s civilian administration in the West Bank, said a planning committee approved the construction of 2,162 new Jewish homes. They include 1,006 units in a new settlement near Jerusalem, 922 near the Palestinian city of Nablus and 234 near Hebron. “We are continuing to build the Land of Israel in practice,” said Smotrich, an ultra-nationalist sanctioned by Britain, France and others who accuse him of inciting violence against Palestinians. Smotrich has denounced the sanctions against him, saying the measures would not change Israeli policy. The new homes would “strengthen our hold on the land, reinforce Israel’s security, and establish clear facts on the ground that prevent the creation of an Arab terror state in the heart of the country,” Smotrich said in a statement, without specifying when construction would begin. Since becoming a minister three years ago, Smotrich has sought to tighten Israel’s control and presence in the West Bank while advocating against the idea of a Palestinian state. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government has overseen the significant expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and the establishment of new settlements. Independence aspirations Palestinians want the West Bank as part of a future independent state that includes East Jerusalem and Gaza. Around half a million Israelis live in the West Bank among about three million Palestinians. US President Donald Trump’s administration has been far less critical of the fast-expanding Israeli settlements. However, Trump did say last September that he would not allow Israel to annex the West Bank, angering some right-wing Israeli lawmakers. The United Arab Emirates, one of the few Arab states to have official ties with Israel, has also publicly warned the Israeli government against annexation. Condemning Wednesday’s announcement, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ office warned that Israel’s “provocative” policies were pushing the region towards more rounds of violence and called on the US to stop the Israeli “madness”. Smotrich on May 19 said he would wage “war” on the Palestinian Authority, which exercises limited civic rule in the West Bank, after he said he was told the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor had sought a confidential arrest warrant against him. The ICC has not confirmed that.
Revealed: AIEF, a charitable affiliate of pro-Israel lobby Aipac, has spent millions on travel for lawmakers from both parties, even as voters’ support for Israel plummets Dozens of members of Congress and Capitol Hill staffers have enjoyed lavish gifted travel to Israel funded by an Aipac affiliate since 7 October 2023, amid Israel’s expanding wars on its neighbors and despite plummeting levels of support among Americans for the country’s policies, a Guardian analysis has found. Congressional ethics filings and other public records show the trips, led by the American Israel Education Foundation (AIEF), revolved around one-sided briefings on Middle East politics and Israeli domestic and foreign policy. Lawmakers and their staffers from both parties met Israeli officials, military contractors and civil society figures, including Benjamin Netanyahu and advocates for the annexation of the West Bank and the displacement of Palestinians from Jerusalem. Continue reading...
Despite an apparent ceasefire, Israel's leaders continue to hint at annexation and ethnic cleansing.
The Palestinian Authority urged citizens to avoid Israel’s new land registration in Area C, calling it “illegal” and a step toward annexation and land seizure.
Country: occupied Palestinian territory Source: Medical Aid for Palestinians On 1 June, Israeli authorities will invite bids from private companies to construct 3,400 new settlement units in the occupied West Bank – a step that would effectively cut off occupied East Jerusalem from the rest of the occupied West Bank, further fragment Palestinian territory, forcibly displace communities including Khan al-Ahmar and restrict access to essential healthcare. This step would consolidate Israeli control over the corridor linking East Jerusalem to the Ma’ale Adumim settlement bloc – an outcome widely recognised by governments as undermining the viability of a contiguous Palestinian state and violating international law. In a joint statement last week, the UK and partner governments warned that companies involved in such settlement activity may face “legal and reputational consequences.” Palestinian families in Khan Al-Ahmar now face imminent forced displacement after Israeli authorities moved last week to revive long-standing demolition orders against the community. Khan Al-Ahmar is one of 18 Bedouin and herding communities in the path of the plan. Around 4,000 Palestinians across the 18 communities could lose their homes and land. Abu Khamees, a community leader in Khan Al-Ahmar, has lived under the shadow of demolition orders for years. Nothing, he says, prepared him for this. “Families here are not prepared to leave. We had been living in limbo for years given a temporary halt on the demolition order. The decision for imminent forced displacement was like an electric shock to us. People are anxious about where to go with their children as well as how to access essential services like health and education. People here have already been suffering because reaching healthcare has been extremely difficult, with interrupted services due to movement restrictions and checkpoints. "This is a nail in the coffin of the so-called two-state solution; with the forced displacement of our community Khan Al-Ahmar, and the completion of the E1 settlement project, which has been considered a redline by Western governments for decades. This also jeopardises regional peace and stability. What is the international community willing to do after all these empty promises?" MAP’s mobile clinics have delivered essential healthcare to over 33,000 Palestinians across 22 communities since 2025. Many of these communities are in “Area C”, which covers approximately 60% of the West Bank and is under full Israeli military control, where access to permanent health services is denied due to Israel’s apartheid policies. In these areas, mobile care is often the only lifeline, reaching isolated communities that are cut off from hospitals and clinics due to movement restrictions and settlement expansion. Israel's illegal settlement expansion across the West Bank has systematically fragmented Palestinian communities, severing patients from hospitals and clinics through settler-only roads, checkpoints and the separation wall. Settler violence has further deterred patients and healthcare workers from travelling. The result is a population denied timely, consistent access to the healthcare they urgently need. Khan al-Ahmar is not an isolated case. A parallel E2 project south of Bethlehem would see around 2,500 new settlement units built in a corridor designed to sever the southern West Bank in half. Israeli authorities have already approved 3,401 new settlement units in the E1 area alone. Israeli settlement expansion is compounded by escalating settler violence, which forms part of a broader coercive environment driving the displacement of Palestinians and entrenching de facto annexation. In a single week (12-18 May 2026), settlers carried out more than 50 attacks, including arson targeting homes, farmland and a mosque. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) , 870 attacks have been recorded across more than 220 communities so far this year – an average of six per day. Since January 2025, settler violence and related access restrictions have displaced thousands of Palestinians across the West Bank, with at least 38-45 rural and herding communities fully or largely emptied. Aseel Baidoun, MAP’s Deputy Director of Advocacy and Communications based in the West Bank, said: “The threatened destruction of Khan al-Ahmar exposes the hollowness of years of international handwringing over illegal settlements. Governments have spent decades calling E1 a red line, warning it would shatter any prospects of a viable Palestinian state, while doing virtually nothing to curb Israel's impunity. "If Khan al-Ahmar is erased from the map, it will not happen quietly or accidentally. It will happen after years of empty statements, diplomatic theatre, and deliberate political cowardice from governments that claim to support international law while allowing Israel to carve apart the West Bank piece by piece. Empty condemnation while illegal settlements expand in plain sight is not diplomacy – it's complicity in the ethnic cleansing.” MAP calls on the UK government to follow in the Netherlands, Spain, Slovenia, and Ireland’s footsteps and end trade with illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank. This move, backed by 119 MPs, is consistent with the International Court of Justice’s July 2024 ruling that Israel’s decades-long occupation of the West Bank is unlawful. Nearly two years on from the ICJ’s advisory opinion, the UK government has still not published its legal review or set out any concrete steps to implement it. [ENDS] Aseel Baidoun, Deputy Director of Advocacy and Communications, based in Ramallah is available for interview on request. Please contact the press office to arrange at: press@map.org.uk or +44 (0) 203 869 1310 About Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) works for a future where every Palestinian has access to a comprehensive, effective and locally-led system of healthcare, and the full realisation of their rights to health and dignity. We work in the occupied Palestinian territory and in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon.
Ireland aims to pass a law curbing goods trade with settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank by mid-July, with Israel, some US lawmakers and business groups opposing the move, Foreign Minister Helen McEntee said on Tuesday. Ireland’s government, one of the most outspoken critics of Israel’s war on Gaza, first promised to sanction Israeli settlements in October 2024. The legislation has since been held up by pressure from opposition politicians who aimed to extend the ban also to the services trade, on one side, and international company lobbyists seeking to scrap the bill, on the other. Sources told Reuters last October that the bill was set to be limited to goods. Prime Minister Micheal Martin confirmed that last week and said widening the scope to services was neither “implementable” nor “viable”. Limiting the bill to goods only will impact just a handful of products imported from Israeli-occupied territories, such as fruit that are worth just €200,000 ($234,660) a year, Ireland’s Central Statistics Office said. Business groups warned that the wider category of services could pull foreign multinational companies into unworkable sanctions. “We have consistently advocated for a peaceful solution… but it’s very clear from the actions taken most recently by the Israeli government, but in particular the continued increase in settler violence, the escalation in settler violence in the West Bank, the continued violence in Lebanon, that they have no desire to take this particular road,” McEntee told reporters. Israel’s far-right governing coalition has enabled a rapid expansion of settlements, with some ministers openly advocating for the annexation of the West Bank. Settler violence against Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank has surged since the Gaza war began in October 2023. McEntee said last week she hoped to pass the law in tandem with Belgium, the Netherlands and possibly Slovenia, which have also committed to introducing bans. Spain has already introduced similar curbs, the only European Union member to do so so far. A group of US lawmakers wrote to Martin last year, warning that passing the bill would damage US-Irish relations and impact American companies in Ireland. Ireland is particularly sensitive to pressure from the US, as mainly US-owned foreign multinationals are a major part of the economy and employ around 11 per cent of Irish workers. Most of the international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law. Israel disputes this, claiming biblical ties to the area and insisting that they provide strategic depth and security.
Country: occupied Palestinian territory Source: Data Friendly Space Please refer to the attached file. Overview The following overview has been generated using the information available up to May 4, 2026. It provides a synthesized summary and key insights into the crisis based on the most recent data accessible at that time. Summary The Occupied Palestinian Territory is facing a severe humanitarian crisis, with both Gaza and the West Bank experiencing unprecedented levels of violence and deprivation. In Gaza, following the collapse of a brief pause in hostilities in March 2025, Israeli forces resumed intensive bombardment while maintaining a complete blockade that has now entered its eighth week, preventing all humanitarian aid and commercial supplies from entering. This has left Gaza's 2.2 million residents facing starvation as food stocks deplete, bakeries cease operations due to lack of flour and fuel, and nearly 90% of the population remains displaced with critical infrastructure almost entirely destroyed. A new U.S.-backed peace plan led to a pause in hostilities agreement coming into effect on 10 October 2025, raising cautious hopes for increased humanitarian access and a potential reduction in hostilities after months of relentless violence. However, despite the pause in hostilities, sporadic violations, limited aid entry, and continued displacement highlight the fragility of the pause in hostilities and the deep humanitarian strain that persists across Gaza. Meanwhile, the West Bank has seen a dramatic escalation in military operations, particularly since the launch of "Operation Iron Wall" in January 2025, which has resulted in mass displacement of Palestinians and widespread destruction across refugee camps. Israeli forces have displaced approximately 40,000 people, with officials stating that residents will not be allowed to return for at least a year, while expanded checkpoints and military presence severely restrict movement between Palestinian cities. International organisations and UN bodies have expressed increasing concern about systematic violations of international humanitarian law in the West Bank, including accelerating settlement expansion, land reclassification and forced displacement that multiple observers warn are driving de facto annexation dynamics. These concerns have intensified following the International Court of Justice's 2024 advisory opinion on the illegality of the prolonged occupation and the Israeli authorities' security cabinet decisions of 8 February 2026 expanding civil and administrative control over West Bank land and governance. Key Insights 1. Gaza has entered famine conditions, with projections suggesting the crisis could spread to central and southern areas by September, affecting up to 640,000 people. Between May and September 2025, 470,000 people (22% of the population) were in Catastrophe/IPC Phase 5, over 1 million in Emergency/Phase 4, and the rest in Crisis/Phase 3—meaning the entire population faces severe food insecurity. By the end of September, famine conditions were expected to extend beyond Gaza City into Deir al-Balah and Khan Yunis. Humanitarian aid remains far below needs due to restrictions on access and delivery, driving acute malnutrition, especially among children, while health and nutrition services collapse under the strain. 2. Over the 2025 April–March period, ~71,000 children under five are projected to suffer from acute malnutrition, with ~14,100 of these being severe cases. Similarly, nearly 17,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women are expected to require treatment for acute malnutrition. The rapid rise of malnutrition in children, especially in Gaza City is a red flag: it both signals and drives higher mortality risks. 3. In the West Bank, "Operation Iron Wall" launched in January 2025 has led to the largest forced displacement since 1967, with approximately 40,000 Palestinians displaced from refugee camps including Jenin, Tulkarem, Nur Shams, and El Far\'a, with Israeli officials stating residents cannot return for at least a year. 4. Israeli forces deployed tanks in the northern West Bank in February 2025 for the first time in 20 years, while establishing at least 20 new iron gates and numerous checkpoints throughout the territory, severely restricting movement between Palestinian cities and villages. 5. According to World Bank assessments (February 2025), reconstruction and recovery needs in Gaza require approximately US$53 billion, with housing accounting for 53% of damages, while commerce and industry represent 20%, and critical infrastructure including health, water, and transport comprising 15%. 6. The collapse of local food systems is near total , 98% of cropland in Gaza is reported as destroyed or inaccessible, and fishing has been banned or heavily restricted. Because of wartime blockades and displacement, the normal supply chains for food, fuel, water, and medical supplies have been disrupted or severed. In Gaza City and Khan Yunis, wheat flour prices have reportedly jumped ~3,000% compared to earlier months. Many households are resorting to extreme coping strategies: selling clothes, foraging or collecting trash, or going whole days without food.