{"id":24477,"date":"2026-03-10T19:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T18:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/german-chancellor-urges-israel-to-abandon-plans-to-annex-west-bank\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T19:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T18:40:14","slug":"german-chancellor-urges-israel-to-abandon-plans-to-annex-west-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/german-chancellor-urges-israel-to-abandon-plans-to-annex-west-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"German chancellor urges Israel to abandon plans to annex West Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/merz.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>German Chancellor Friedrich Merz urged Israel on Tuesday to abandon plans to annex the West Bank, warning that the move would undermine efforts to reach a political solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Anadolu reports.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press conference in Berlin, Merz expressed deep concern over recent developments, including Israel&#8217;s attempt to expand control over the West Bank and the continued growth of Israeli settlements. illegal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to make this very clear: The annexation measures being discussed in Quds will further complicate the two-state solution. The German government urgently calls for such steps to be avoided with regard to the so-called E1 territory. It will be a grave mistake,&#8221; Merz said.<\/p>\n<p>Merz added that, at his request, Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul will travel to Israel to emphasize the position of Berlin and to support policy changes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is essential that we Europeans convey this message together&#8221;, emphasized the German chancellor.<\/p>\n<p>We use cookies to improve the experience and to display advertisements (Google AdSense).<br \/>\n          By clicking &#8220;Accept&#8221;, you agree to the use of cookies according to<br \/>\n          Privacy Policy<br \/>\n          and<br \/>\n          Cookies Policy.<br \/>\n          You can reject non-necessary cookies by clicking &#8220;Reject&#8221;.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Chancellor Friedrich Merz urged Israel on Tuesday to abandon plans to annex the West Bank, warning that the move would undermine efforts to reach a political solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Anadolu reports. Speaking at a press conference in Berlin, Merz expressed deep concern over recent developments, including Israel&#8217;s attempt to expand control over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-24477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-brief"],"views":38,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24479,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24477\/revisions\/24479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}