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: The Iranian Embassy in London has strongly denounced Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu over using a map that erased the occupied West Bank in an address to the media, questioning where a future independent Palestinian state should be created.
Thursday 5 September 2024 - 18:40
Story Code : 427604
Source : Press TV
Iran embassy blasts Netanyahu's map showing Palestine as part of Israel
“In the map Netanyahu presented to foreign media reporters, the West Bank is completely missing (have erased). Yet, many hypocritically continue to express support for a two-state solution. A Palestinian government — on what land?” the post read.
In his first public address since Sunday’s mass protests that saw hundreds of thousands of Israeli settlers urging a deal with Hamas for the release of captives being held in the Gaza Strip, Netanyahu stood in front of a wall-sized digital map that obliterated the West Bank.
Speaking about the importance of the Philadelphi Corridor between Gaza and Egypt during the address on Monday, the Israeli premier used a map that showed the entirety of the West Bank and occupied East al-Quds as being annexed to the 1948 Israeli-occupied territories and only had the Gaza Strip outlined.
Palestinians decried the move as an explicit annexation of the occupied territory by Tel Aviv.
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