{"id":616781,"date":"2025-12-06T22:40:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T22:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/616781\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T22:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T22:40:15","slug":"germanys-merz-warns-israel-against-annexing-west-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/616781\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany’s Merz warns Israel against annexing West Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Saturday warned Israel against the annexation of the occupied West Bank, media reports said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe situation in the West Bank must not be lost sight of. We must keep the path to Palestinian statehood open. Therefore, there must be no annexation steps in the West Bank,\u201d Merz said in the Jordanian port city of Aqaba, where he met the Jordanian King Abdullah II.<\/p>\n

Ultra-right members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government have long advocated annexation of the occupied West Bank, which Palestinians claim as part of a future independent state.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to help lay the foundations for a new order throughout the Middle East.\u201d It must be an order in which Israelis, Palestinians and Arab neighbours can live in lasting peace, freedom and security, he added.<\/p>\n

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Merz reiterated that Germany supports a two-state solution and said that peace negotiations should begin soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Saturday warned Israel against the annexation of the occupied West Bank, media reports…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-616781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115675033354096248","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}