Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented a map on Monday evening that conspicuously omitted the occupied West Bank, signaling a potential intention to annex the territory.
During a news conference, he stood before a large digital display that erased the West Bank from view, articulating the rationale behind the Israeli military’s continued presence in Gaza.
This map drew scrutiny from experts such as Mairav Zonszein, a senior analyst at Crisis Group, who interpreted it as a deliberate erasure of the West Bank’s status as Palestinian territory.
Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, also weighed in via X, denouncing Netanyahu’s presentation of the map and deeming it a indicative of a political agenda that envisages a “from the river to the sea” framework, a notion being advanced by a man wanted by the ICC Prosecutor for alleged war crimes.
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