Israel mapping West Bank annexations under US Mideast plan: Netanyahu

Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel has started drawing up maps of the occupied West Bank areas that it wants to annex under US President Donald Trump’s self-proclaimed “deal of the century” for the Middle East. “We are already at the height of the process of mapping the area that, according to the Trump plan, will become part of... Israel. It won’t take too long,” he said at an election campaign rally in the Ma'ale Adumim settlement near Jerusalem al-Quds on Saturday. Netanyahu also stressed that the area Israel plans to annex would include all West Bank settlements and the Jordan Valley. He had already pledged...