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The American Ambassador to Israel visited Mike Hakapi, one of the occupied West Bank settlements and a tour of which the Israeli press described as historic, and also held a meeting with the so -called “Shiite Council”, a body that represents the Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
This is the first time in the history that a senior US official made an official and public visit to a settlement in the West Bank and holds an official meeting with representatives of the Israeli occupation authorities outside the Green Line that defines the region occupied by Israel in the 1967 war.
According to the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot, the American ambassador “praised” the Jewish settlers, cited “their biblical right to the land”, and said that those who oppose them “do not support God”, in a flagrant exit from the former American diplomatic protocol.
According to the newspaper “Times of Israel”, Hackabi said in a statement issued by the “Supreme Council” that “US President (Donald) Trump loves this land. You have sacrificed a lot to live in these places, you paid the price of this blood, sweat and tears. This place is a miracle.”
He added, “I never used a term except Jews and Samaria,” referring to the biblical term for the West Bank, saying that “the use of any other term is a historical unjust and denial of the Bible,” as he claimed.
The Shiha Council added that during the visit, Ambassador Hakabi followed an Israeli prayer and called “in order to release the hostages and the safety of Israeli soldiers”, who commit a genocide in the Gaza Strip, killings, arrests, homes and daily displacement of the Palestinians in the West Bank.
According to the same newspaper, the former Trump ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, made several visits to the West Bank settlements during his work as an envoy, which changed the current situation in the pre -Trump era, as American ambassadors were not visiting Israeli areas outside the Green Line.
Hakapi’s visit to the “Shilo” settlement is the first time that an American ambassador has held an official meeting in the West Bank with Israeli officials, unlike Friedman’s private rounds in the region, which was considered “special and not” official “, according to Yedioth Ahronoth.
