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Jordan’s king says Israeli moves in West Bank ‘threaten to exacerbate conflict’
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Jordan's King Abdullah II looks on during a reception by the deputy speaker of the Hungarian Parliament at the Hungarian Parliament building in Budapest on October 16, 2025. (Attila KISBENEDEK / AFP)
Jordan’s King Abdullah II criticizes Israel’s approval of measures allowing for the registration of land in the West Bank as “state property.”
“Israel’s illegal actions aiming to consolidate settlements and impose sovereignty over Palestinian land undermine efforts to restore calm and threaten to exacerbate the conflict,” he says during a meeting with British officials in London, according to a statement released by the royal court.
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