Israel, West Bank and J. D. Vance
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Video verified by ABC News shows an alleged Israeli settler clubbing an elderly Palestinian woman in the West Bank on Sunday. She remains hospitalized, a mayor said.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday dismissed an effort by some Israeli lawmakers to push forward with annexation of the occupied West Bank, saying Israel is "not going to do anything with the West Bank.
Vice President JD Vance also called symbolic votes in Israel’s Parliament to take territory a “very stupid political stunt.”
“The West Bank is not going to be annexed by Israel. The policy of the Trump administration is that the West Bank will not be annexed by Israel,” the veep added. “That will continue to be our policy. If people want to take symbolic votes, they can do that. But we certainly weren’t happy about it.”
Afaf Abu Alia had woken early on October 19 to join her grandchildren picking olives near the West Bank village of Turmus Ayya, when she heard a woman scream "settlers". Masked men burst out of the trees,
The appliance was sent to the West Bank last year but was impounded at an Israeli port where it has racked up £16,000 in fees.
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.