Palestine decries US House speaker’s visit to illegal Israeli settlement in occupied West Bank – Middle East Monitor

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry on Monday condemned US House Speaker Mike Johnson’s visit to the illegal Israeli settlement of Ariel in the occupied West Bank, saying his remarks endorsing annexation constituted a “blatant violation of international law,” Anadolu reports.

In a statement, the ministry called Johnson’s support of the annexation of the West Bank “provocative incitement that encourages settler crimes and land confiscation.”

It said the…