Trump says Israel will lose US support if it annexes West Bank

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : The annexation of the West Bank by Israel would eliminate hopes for a two-state solution, which seeks to establish a sovereign, viable and independent state of Palestine within recognised and mutually agreed borders, living alongside Israel in peace.
48% : This had come hours after Israel and Hamas exchanged hostages and prisoners under the first phase of a ceasefire agreement.
45% : Since then, Israel has built about 160 settlements housing 7,00,000 Jews in the Palestinian cities, BBC reported.
42% : Earlier in the day, Israel's Cabinet had approved the ceasefire agreement proposed by Trump, clearing the way to suspend hostilities in Gaza and free Israeli hostages held there.
41% : As part of the first phase of Trump's peace plan, the militant group Hamas released all living Israeli hostages, while Israel freed nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners.
40% : Israel has been carrying out unprecedented air and ground strikes on besieged Gaza since then, leaving more than 67,000 persons dead.
40% : Israel and Hamas had been holding ceasefire talks since July.
35% : The White House said that Israel will not annex Gaza and no one will be forced to leave the region.
34% : "Israel is not going to do anything with the West Bank.
33% : " He added: "Israel would lose all of its support from the United States if that happened.
32% : In August, the United Nations formally declared a famine in northern Gaza.
32% : Israel called the report "distorted and false", and demanded that the commission be immediately abolished.
24% : The policy of the Trump administration is that the West Bank will not be annexed by Israel.
23% : In September, a commission of inquiry set up by the UN said that Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
20% : These include the matter of disarmament, the governance of Gaza or whether Hamas will demilitarise. Israel's military offensive in Gaza began in October 2023 after Hamas killed 1,200 persons during its incursion into southern Israel and took hostages.
10% : The United Arab Emirates, an important ally of the US and Israel in the peace process to end the war on Gaza, has also said that such an annexation would constitute a "red line". Before leaving Israel on Wednesday, Vance said: "If the Knesset [Israeli parliament] vote was a political stunt, then it is a very stupid political stunt.

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