Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesUS president Donald Trump said on Monday that ‍he and Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu did not agree fully on the issue of the Israeli-occupied ‍West Bank but the Republican leader did not lay out what the disagreement was. In a briefing after a meeting with Netanyahu at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, Trump was asked if he ‌had a message for Netanyahu about the West Bank and if he was concerned that settler violence ⁠in the West Bank could undermine peace. “We have had a discussion, big discussion ‌for ​a ‍long time on the West Bank. And I wouldn’t say we agree on the West Bank 100 per cent, but we’ll come to a conclusion on the West Bank,” Trump said. Israel has been under mounting international pressure to curb attacks by settlers on Palestinians in the West ‍Bank.

Source: The Irish Times December 30, 2025 14:59 UTC