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Iron Dome anti-missile system fires interception missiles as rockets are launched from Gaza towards Israel

IDF strikes Hamas targets following Gaza rocket fire

HAMAS MEMBERS in Gaza.

Hamas founder calls on PA, Fatah to join forces in armed resistance

By DONNA RACHEL EDMUNDS

Blue and White leader and Alternate Prime Minister Benny Gantz speaks at a Blue and White faction meeting, May 27, 2020

Gantz: Trump’s peace plan shouldn’t be advanced during COVID-19 pandemic

By TOVAH LAZAROFF , LAHAV HARKOV

A truck displays a counter-protest slogan in the vicinity of pro-Palestinian rallies held across America, July 2020

American protestors chant 'Death to Israel' at US Day of Rage

By DONNA RACHEL EDMUNDS

'People Against Annexation' mural painted on Tel Aviv Museum of Arts square near IDF HQ

Tel Aviv 'People Against Annexation' mural set up near IDF HQ

By LEON SVERDLOV

Settlement of Elon Moreh, near Nablus, West Bank, June 11, 2020

PLO official lauds open letter penned by female leaders opposing annexation

By ZACHARY KEYSER

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu and Alternate Prime Minister Benny Gantz – a table apart.

Is the Netanyahu-Gantz tension keeping annexation hostage?

By LAHAV HARKOV

Palestinians participate in a march rejecting Israeli annexation of parts of the West Bank. Rafah, Gaza Strip, June 11, 2020.

Understanding the Arab world's response to annexation

PALESTINIAN DEMONSTRATORS take part in a ‘day of rage’ rally to protest against Israel’s annexation plan, in Gaza City.

Delayed annexation is a minor Palestinian victory

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

Attempted arson from a suspected "Price Tag" attack on April 13th, 2018.

Man indicted after setting fire to non-kosher Arabic restaurant – twice

By IDAN ZONSHINE

FILE PHOTO: European High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission Josep Borrell, holds a virtual news conference on the approval of Operation Irini, at the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium March 31, 2020

Borrell: No proof of EU-funded NGOs working with Palestinian terror groups

By LAHAV HARKOV

Hamas Chief Ismail Haniyeh attends a meeting with members of international media at his office in Gaza City, June 20, 2019

Iran speaks to Hamas about annexation

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

Senior Fatah leader Jibril Rajoub

Fatah, Hamas agree to cooperate against Israel, US 'plots'

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas wears a protective face mask during a leadership meeting in Ramallah on May 19, 2020

Palestinians slash public wages in tax dispute with Israel over annexation

By REUTERS

University of Miami

University of Miami students discuss Israel’s annexation plans

By ROHAMA BRUK / THE MEDIA LINE

NITSANA DARSHAN-LEITNER, president of Shurat HaDin

Pulling the annexation trigger – Shurat HaDin’s legal roundtable

By ALAN ROSENBAUM

A Palestinian demonstrator returns a tear gas canister as a car carrying a bride and groom passes by during a protest against Israel's plan to annex parts of the West Bank, near the Beit El settlement. July 1, 2020.

Israel heading into annexation abyss without a safety net – analysis

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

Ofer Shelah

MK Shelah: 'How have we gotten to July 1 without an annexation map?'

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

The Palestinians participate in a march rejecting the policy of the Israeli annexation project in the West Bank and the Jordan Valley and the deal of the century, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on June 11, 2020.

Gazans protest annexation as West Bank copes with coronavirus spike

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne speaks with a delegate from the Democratic Republic of the Congo during an event hosted by the U.S. Department of State's Energy Resources Governance Initiative at the Palace Hotel on the sidelines of the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly in

Australia warns Israel against annexation

By LAHAV HARKOV

Abu Dhabi. UAE

European sticks won’t stop annexation, but UAE carrots give pause

By LAHAV HARKOV

A view shows the West Bank settlement of Ma'aleh Adumim, June 30, 2020.

10 things to know about West Bank annexation D-Day

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

Jerusalem protest calling for sovereign now.

Likud minister: Annexation will happen in July after Trump statement

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), answers questions from journalists after voting early in the Democratic congressional primary election at the Justice Sonia Sotomayor Community Center in the Bronx borough of New York City, U.S., June 20, 2020

AOC annexation letter: Full letter on Israel's West Bank annexation

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Jordanian official Marwan Muasher (L) welcomes Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas (C) and Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie on their arrival in Amman 29, 2004.

Former Jordanian FM says annexation would kill two-state solution

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

THE WEST BANK town of Efrat, with Bethlehem in the background.

Four reasons why Israeli annexation is not happening July 1

By GABE FRIEDMAN/JTA

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu.

Netanyahu: We are still working on sovereignty

By LAHAV HARKOV , KHALED ABU TOAMEH

HEADED TOWARD conflict? Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh arrives for a cabinet meeting of the new Palestinian government, in Ramallah, earlier this week

Having declared the Quartet a failure in the past, PA turns to it again

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a leadership meeting in Ramallah, in the West Bank May 19, 2020

Palestinians: Peace talks only through UN-sponsored international parley

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

Settlement of Elon Moreh, near Nablus, West Bank, June 11, 2020

Homeland star lends voice to chorus of West Bank annexation opponents

By PHILISSA CRAMER/JTA

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas chairs a session of the weekly cabinet meeting with Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh, in Ramallah

Palestinians offer negotiations days before planned annexation - report

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Settlement of Elon Moreh, near Nablus, West Bank, June 11, 2020

Settler leader to US envoy: Visit West Bank before deciding its fate

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Mevo'ot Yericho in the Jordan Valley

Shaked: Netanyahu has given up on sovereignty over the Jordan Valley

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu convenes weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem

Netanyahu: Annexation will advance peace, not set it back

By OMRI NAHMIAS

A member of security forces loyal to Hamas stands guard as supporters of former senior Fatah official Mohammad Dahlan take part in a rally marking the death anniversary of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, in Gaza City November 9, 2017

Palestinian factions call for 'day of rage' to foil annexation

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat looks on during a news conference following his meeting with foreign diplomats, in Ramallah, West Bank January 30, 2019

Palestinians reject partial annexation, warn of PA collapse

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

A Palestinian woman steps on a replica of an Israeli flag during an event marking Land Day near the Israel-Gaza border as mass rallies planned to commemorate the event were cancelled amid concerns about the spread of coronavirus, east of Gaza City March 30, 2020

Gaza terror groups said ‘preparing response’ to annexation

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

Palestinian militants of Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades take part in a military show as they protest against Israel's plan to annex parts of the West Bank, in Nablus June 07, 2020

Jordanian MP: If we don't die for Palestine, what is the point of life?

By DONNA RACHEL EDMUNDS

A CHECKPOINT near Jerusalem. Will it become an official border or Israel?

Will Netanyahu follow through on annexation?

THE ANNOUNCEMENT of the United States’ annexation of Hawaii in the ‘Pacific Commerical Advertiser,’ on July 14, 1898.

A history of annexation, and how to make it last

By AMOTZ ASA-EL

David Friedman

No American decision on annexation as Friedman returns to Israel

By LAHAV HARKOV , OMRI NAHMIAS , TOVAH LAZAROFF

HAGEE: ‘ISRAEL and the Jewish people face many threats, thus we must continue to grow.’

Pastor John Hagee: Gulf states should offer Israel normalized ties

By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN , OMRI NAHMIAS

THE MOSSAD’S current head, Yossi Cohen

Mossad head met with Jordan's King Abdullah, discussed annexation - report

Israeli Police and soldiers at a temporary "checkpoint" at Bar Ilan junction in Jerusalem, April 13, 2020,

Accident or ramming? Different versions for Israeli checkpoint shooting

By DIMA ABUMARIA/ THE MEDIA LINE

PA PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas – ‘He makes threats and engages in fiery rhetoric as part of a strategy to appease the Palestinian public.’

Abbas hints at dissolving PA in response to annexation

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

A bird’s eye view of Kfar Bara, a thriving Muslim Arab community in central Israel with some 3,000 residents

Kfar Bara leads the way among Israeli-Arab localities

By RUTH WASSERMAN LANDE

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to the media at the State Department in Washington, DC, U.S., May 20, 2020

US puts onus on Palestinians week before earliest annexation date

By LAHAV HARKOV , TOVAH LAZAROFF , OMRI NAHMIAS

Prison cell block

Givat Assaf terrorist given four life sentences

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

Senators Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham at the King David Hotel ahead of the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem

Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton: Trump should support annexation

By LAHAV HARKOV

The Palestinians participate in a march rejecting the policy of the Israeli annexation project in the West Bank and the Jordan Valley and the deal of the century, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on June 11, 2020.

Palestinians pessimistic on annexation, say will harm two-state solution

By DONNA RACHEL EDMUNDS

Israeli security forces arrest PFLP terror cell members in the Ramallah area

MEPs call for further investigations into EU funding of Palestinian terror

By DONNA RACHEL EDMUNDS

HAMAS MEMBERS in Gaza.

Hamas hints terror attacks would stop annexation

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

Benny Gantz, leader of Blue and White party, attends an election campaign event, in Kfar Ahim, Israel, September 16, 2019

Gantz on annexation: 'We won't get into Palestinian deep sh*t'

By LAHAV HARKOV , ANNA AHRONHEIM , TOVAH LAZAROFF , OMRI NAHMIAS

KOCHAVI (RIGHT) and predecessor Lt.-Gen. (ret.) Gadi Eisenkot flank Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the chief of staff switchover ceremony. (Amos Ben Gershom

IDF generals urge Trump to stand behind Netanyahu’s sovereignty plan

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

David SchenkerAssistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs David Schenker

US envoy hopes Israel will weigh UAE, Arab concerns about annexation

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

Alternate Prime Minister and Defense Minister Benny Gantz is seen meeting with settler leaders.

What’s the rush?

A member of medical staff swabs the nose of a Palestinian worker for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing upon his return from Israel, outside the Israeli-controlled Tarqumiya checkpoint near Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank March 26, 2020

The reasons behind Palestinian apathy towards annexation

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman looks on as he speaks during a briefing at The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs in Jerusalem February 9, 2020.

Ambassador Friedman to travel to Washington amid annexation speculations

By OMRI NAHMIAS

Overview of the Human Rights Council one day after the U.S. announced their withdraw at the United Nations in Geneva,

UNHRC arms embargo call against Israel passes by only slim margin

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

Palestinian children wearing Hamas headbands take part in a rally against U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in the Gaza Strip

Comprehensive report reveals endemic hate education in Palestinian schools

By DONNA RACHEL EDMUNDS

Iyad al-Hallak's grave, his death sparked mass protests over what some say is police brutality

Killing of autistic man by Israeli police draws George Floyd parallels

By REUTERS

Blue and White leader and Alternate Prime Minister Benny Gantz speaks at a Blue and White faction meeting, May 27, 2020

Gantz won’t support annexation of areas with Palestinian residents

By LAHAV HARKOV

NADAV SHRAGAI tracks terror acts perpetrated in the name of the legendary ‘Al-Aqsa is in danger’ libel.

The truth is in danger: Al-Aqsa Terror – From Libel to Blood

Tzipi Livni takes the podium at a press conference announcing her resignation from politics, February 18th, 2019

Hamas condemns international award to ‘war criminal’ Tzipi Livni

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

Sbarro pizzeria after Palestinian terrorists detonated a bomb

Failure to extradite Sbarro terrorist ‘egregious denial of justice’

By JEREMY SHARON

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting of the United Nations (UN) Security Council at UN headquarters in New York, U.S., February 20, 2018

PA shreds sensitive files, fearing Israeli raids after annexation - report

By LEON SVERDLOV

Navy, Shin Bet thwart attempted weapons smuggling into Gaza from Sinai

Israel thwarts weapons smuggling into Gaza Strip

By ANNA AHRONHEIM

The basic error is to treat all the settlements alike

Settlers push annexation map without enclaves

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

Netanyahu meets with settler leaders in Gush Etzion after the US stated that settlements are not illegal on November 19, 2019.

Blue and White pushing a Gush Etzion, Ma’aleh Adumim annexation plan

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

King of Jordan Abdullah II addresses the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France January 15, 2020.

King Abdullah presses Congress to oppose annexation

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

Palestinian singer Mohammed Assaf

PA TV re-releases pop video glorifying Palestinian terrorists

By DONNA RACHEL EDMUNDS

A rocket is fired towards Israel, in the southern Gaza Strip February 24, 2020

IDF strikes Gaza after rocket fired into Israel

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu.

Netanyahu: Sovereignty may start small if Gantz insists

By LAHAV HARKOV , TOVAH LAZAROFF

Qatari envoy Mohammed Al-Emadi gestures during an interview with Reuters in Gaza City, August 24, 2019

Qatar: Israel hasn’t stopped cash grants to Gaza

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

Molotov cocktail in hand

IDF arrests 3 Palestinians in Hebron about to throw Molotov cocktails

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Benjamin Netanyahu announces that if reelected, he will extend Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley, September 10 2019

400 Jewish studies scholars denounce Israeli annexation as ‘apartheid’

By BEN SALES/JTA

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat looks on during a news conference following his meeting with foreign diplomats, in Ramallah, West Bank January 30, 2019

Erekat: EU’s double standard on annexation must stop

By MOHAMMAD AL-KASSIM/THE MEDIA LINE

The temple mount on the Ninth of Av, July 22, 2018.

Temple Mount guard issued with five month ban for praising terrorist

By DONNA RACHEL EDMUNDS

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks with the Emirati Ambassador to the US Yousef Al Otaiba at the NYU Abu Dhabi campus in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates January 13, 2019

UAE: Annexation could destroy Israeli normalization with Arab world

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

Explosive balloon in the Shaar HaNegev Regional Council, Jan. 30, 2020

Balloon units threaten to turn Gaza envelope into 'hell'

Citibank

NGO threatens to sue Citibank as ‘pay for slay’ terrorist funds conduit

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

THE SETTLEMENT OF Elon Moreh, with Nablus in the background.

IDF prepares for violent worst-case-scenarios after West Bank annexation

By ANNA AHRONHEIM

AFGHAN CHILDREN in Jalalablad celebrate in February the US-Taliban agreement to allow a US troop reduction and a permanent ceasefire.

How will the ‘end’ of the global war on terror affect Israel?

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

THE WEST BANK town of Efrat, with Bethlehem in the background.

Stop the hubris – annexation is important for Israel, not Trump

Ari Fuld, 2018

Court considers life sentence for murderer of Ari Fuld

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on June 10, 2020

Netanyahu to German FM: Evacuating settlements is a delusion

By LAHAV HARKOV

PALESTINIANS PROTEST the planned annexation.

Israeli judges send tacit message to ICC: ‘We respect international law’

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

Joint List faction chairman Ahmad Tibi

Arab MKs blast Jewish terrorist attacker of Duma at sentencing hearing

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh addresses journalists during a meeting with members of the Foreign Press Association in Ramallah in the West Bank June 9, 2020

Shtayyeh: We will declare state on 1967 lines if Israel annexes W. Bank

By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN

ICC CHIEF PROSECUTOR Fatou Bensouda in The Hague earlier this year

ICC Prosecutor: Israel war crimes probe can go on despite Oslo Accords

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

Protesters gather in Rabin Square to demonstrate against annexation on June 6, 2020

Palestinians hold anti-annexation protest in Ramallah

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

Israeli security forces guard as Palestinians protest against Israel's plan to annex parts of the West Bank, near Tulkarm, in the West Bank on June 5, 2020.

Police detain Fatah activists for 'illegal' activities in Jerusalem

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

The 49-year-old Palestinian who is suspected of throwing the large stone that killed Golani soldier First Sergeant Amit Ben Yigal

Shin Bet, IDF arrest Palestinian responsible for killing of IDF soldier

By ANNA AHRONHEIM

The UN General Assembly sign outside of the United Nations building in New York

Palestinians advancing UN resolution condemning Israeli annexation

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Gazan citizens line up to receive their Qatari grant for humanitarian aid

Qatari envoy expected to return to Gaza, distribute funds

THE WEST BANK town of Efrat, with Bethlehem in the background.

Prominent British Jews urge Israel not to annex West Bank lands

By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ/JTA

Defense Minister Naftali Bennett (left) and YESHA head David ElHayani

Has Israel lost the battle for sovereignty now?

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

IDF SOLDIERS take part in a flag-lowering ceremony as they prepare to withdraw from Girit outpost, in the southern Gaza Strip, in 2005.

Annexation has parallels in Israel's withdrawal from Gaza in 2005

The ultimate decider: President Reuven Rivlin

Rivlin advocates discussion on annexation – But without verbal violence

By GREER FAY CASHMAN , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A Palestinian man waits at a counter to make a withdrawal at the Housing Bank for Trade & Finance in the West Bank city of Ramallah January 22, 2013

Palestinians snub tax handover by Israel over annexation plan

By REUTERS

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