U.S. Warns Israel to Stop Announcing New West Bank Settlements

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U.S. Warns Israel to Stop Announcing New West Bank Settlements

The White House warned the Israeli government Thursday to stop announcing plans to build new settlements in the occupied West Bank, appearing to open a breach in the extraordinarily warm relationship between President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The warning comes amid two days of dramatic protests that erupted in the West Bank as Israeli defense forces swooped in this week to enforce a Supreme Court order to evict Jewish families from an outpost on private Palestinian land in the settlement of Amona, northeast of Ramallah.

About 330 Israeli settlers lived in Amona, the largest of scores of outposts built in the West Bank without official authorization.

U.S. Warns Israel to Stop Announcing New West Bank Settlements - NBC News