The US rejected an Israeli media report Tuesday that claimed Vice President JD Vance confronted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about escalating violence by illegal Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, Anadolu Agency reports. “This story is completely false,” Taylor Van Kirk, spokeswoman to Vance, wrote on US social media company X. Van Kirk said Vance’s discussions with Netanyahu in the past week had been “solely focused” on US and Israeli strikes against Iran that were launched Feb. 28, adding that the subject of the Israel Hayom article “was not even discussed.” The news outlet reported that Vance was furious about mounting violence and vandalism by illegal Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, and pressed Netanyahu to resume […]
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