Vice-President Vance says the move by far-right lawmakers was "stupid", while Secretary of State Rubio warns of the impact on Gaza peace plan.

In a whirlwind trip to Israel to help salvage Trump's ceasefire deal, Vance weighed in on Netanyahu politics and toured the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance has criticized Israel’s parliament vote on West Bank annexation, saying the move was an “insult.”

JD Vance slams Israeli lawmakers' West Bank annexation vote as "very stupid political stunt" during his visit, reaffirming Trump policy against annexation.

Top US diplomat Marco Rubio warned that Israel's moves towards annexing the occupied West Bank risked undermining a fragile US-brokered truce in Gaza, as he headed to Israel on Thursday.Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967,

Tensions intensified in the occupied West Bank on Thursday as Israeli soldiers intervened during confrontations between Israeli settlers and Palestinian farmers harvesting olives.

IDF troops demolish the home of a Palestinian terrorist accused of being an accomplice to a deadly shooting attack in the West Bank in May, during which a pregnant woman was killed, forcing doctors to perform an emergency C-section to deliver her son, who died two weeks later.