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The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation said that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited the settlement of “Psgot” on Thursday, which is built on land in the city of Al-Bireh in the center of the occupied West Bank.
This is the first visit by a US secretary to a settlement in the West Bank.
The station said Pompeo arrived at the settlement in an Israeli helicopter.
Pompeo revealed, in a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this Thursday morning, that he had visited Silwan last night, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in East Jerusalem, and would visit the Syrian Golan Heights. busy on Thursday.
“Last night I had the opportunity to walk through the City of David (Silwan), and today we met in a place overlooking the Old City,” Pompeo said at a press conference.
“Today I will visit the Golan Heights, and the recognition of Israeli sovereignty over them is a decision made by President Trump, recognizing reality,” he added.
On March 25, 2019, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, officially recognized Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights, which it occupied from Syria in 1967.
Pompeo reiterated during the press conference that his administration does not consider the settlement in the occupied Palestinian territories illegal, saying: “For a long time, the State Department had a wrong opinion about the settlements, and today the State Department strongly supports the situation. , that the settlements can continue adequately. “
And Washington previously announced on November 19, 2019 that it no longer considers settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories “illegal.”
