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President Donald Trump warned Israel would lose its crucial backing from the United States if it annexes the occupied West Bank, as visiting Secretary of State Marco Rubio voiced confidence that a US-backed ceasefire in Gaza would hold.

Trump's remarks were made to Time magazine by telephone on 15 October - just days after the Gaza truce plan he spearheaded took effect - but were only published on Thursday.

"It won't happen," Trump said when asked about calls in Israel to annex the Palestinian West Bank, which has been occupied by Israel since 1967. "It won't happen because I gave my word to the Arab countries."

He added: "Israel would lose all of its support from the United States if that happened."
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Israeli lawmakers on Wednesday advanced two bills paving the way for West Bank annexation, leading to condemnation Thursday from US Vice President JD Vance, who was in Israel at the time and who echoed Trump's comments.

When asked on Thursday if he was concerned by the votes, Trump told reporters at the White House: "Don't worry about the West Bank. Israel's not going to do anything with the West Bank."

The United States remains Israel's most important military and diplomatic supporter.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party boycotted and criticised the vote, though members of his ruling coalition support annexation.

Arab and Muslim countries, which the US has been courting to provide troops and money for a stabilisation force in Gaza -- a key element of Trump's ceasefire plan - have warned that annexation of the West Bank is a red line.

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Maybe one day, they will be able to put a name to the Palestinians buried side by side this week in the Gaza soil.

Palestinian health authorities told NBC News that each plot at the mass burial site in Deir-al-Balah would be clearly marked, so that a rebuilt health system might eventually help identify the remains — decomposing and in some cases apparently mutilated — that were returned by Israel as part of the ceasefire with Hamas.

The 54 unidentified bodiesBut for hundreds of families who had flocked to Gaza’s Nasser Hospital, where the remains were delivered, the mass burial brought little closure in their quest to confirm whether missing loved ones were indeed killed. were laid carefully in a long line of white shrouds as Palestinians gathered around the grave site.

But for hundreds of families who had flocked to Gaza’s Nasser Hospital, where the remains were delivered, the mass burial brought little closure in their quest to confirm whether missing loved ones were indeed killed.

Israel said all the returned bodies belonged to combatants in Gaza, without providing evidence to support the claim.

“Their loved ones’ bodies were so deformed and beyond recognition that they couldn’t even identify them and lay them to rest,” Moureen Kaki, a Palestinian American aid worker from the medical nongovernmental organization Glia, said in an interview Thursday.

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Iraq on Friday condemned the Israeli Knesset’s preliminary approval of two bills to impose Israeli sovereignty over the occupied West Bank and the Ma’ale Adumim settlement east of Jerusalem, describing the move as a “flagrant violation of international law,” according to the state-run Iraqi News Agency (INA).

In a statement, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry said it “strongly condemns the Knesset’s approval of two draft laws aimed at imposing sovereignty over the occupied West Bank and illegal settlements.”

The ministry said the step “constitutes a blatant breach of international law and a direct assault on the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.”

“Such expansionist measures undermine prospects for stability and entrench the reality of occupation and settlement, threatening peace and security across the entire region,” it added.

Baghdad urged the international community to “shoulder its legal and humanitarian responsibilities and take a firm stand against Israel’s aggressive and expansionist policies toward the Palestinian people.”

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Off-site power to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which has been occupied by Russian forces for nearly four years, is being restored after a monthlong outage, officials said Thursday.

Energy Minister Svitlana Grynchuk said the damaged 750-kilovolt Dniprovska transmission line linking the Russian-occupied plant to Ukraine’s grid has been repaired, while work continues on the Ferosplavna 330-kilovolt backup line that runs through Russian-held areas.

The International Atomic Energy Agency said the repairs to Europe’s largest nuclear power station were carried out under a local ceasefire. It described the return of off-site power as “a key step for nuclear safety.”

Russian and Ukrainian forces established special ceasefire zones for repairs to be safely carried out — a rare case of cooperation between both sides.

“Both sides engaged constructively with the IAEA to enable the complex repair plan to proceed,” Grossi said in a statement.

Grynchuk said Ukrainian energy workers have repaired the plant’s power lines 42 times since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. During that period, the facility lost external power and had to rely on emergency diesel generators on 10 occasions.

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Keir Starmer has said a Russian-sponsored attack on a warehouse in London shows the dangers Britons face from Vladimir Putin's regime.

The PM said he would be stepping up efforts to stop fellow world leaders purchasing "tainted resources" from Russia. Mr Starmer, standing alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, told a press conference: "Just a few moments ago, here in the United Kingdom, we saw the sentencing of six men for Russian sponsored arson attack on a warehouse in East London.

"This was a warehouse storing humanitarian aid and satellite equipment destined for Ukraine. We will not tolerate this hostile activity, and it just underlines the point - your security is our security.

"What happens on the frontline of Donetsk today is shaping our collective future for years to come." He accused Vladimir Putin of stalling and playing for time, saying: "Putin is the only person who does not want to stop this war. His strikes on civilians this week made that crystal clear once again, targeting energy infrastructure ahead of winter."

He said a 12-year-old girl and a six month old baby were among those killed in Putin's strike. "This is who Putin is," Mr Starmer stated. "Time after time he rejects the chance to end the war."

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US President Donald Trump has announced what he called "tremendous" new sanctions against two of Russia's largest oil companies, in a bid to pressure Moscow into ending its war on Ukraine.

The measures target Rosneft and Lukoil - two major oil corporations that help fund the Kremlin's "war machine", according to US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

They represent the first direct interventions the Trump administration has imposed on Russia over its invasion, and have therefore been viewed as a geopolitically significant moment.

The sanctions, imposed by the US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), effectively blacklist Russia's two largest oil producers.

Rosneft, a state-controlled company headed by Russian President Vladimir Putin's close ally Igor Sechin, and Lukoil, a privately owned firm, account for nearly half of the nation's total crude-oil exports, according to Bloomberg estimates.

Between them, the two corporations export 3.1 million barrels of oil per day.

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