{"id":20108,"date":"2026-04-14T04:52:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=20108"},"modified":"2026-04-14T04:52:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:52:54","slug":"germany-opposes-any-de-facto-annexation-of-the-west-bank-by-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/04\/14\/germany-opposes-any-de-facto-annexation-of-the-west-bank-by-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany opposes any de facto annexation of the West Bank by Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Germany\u2019s Prime Minister Friedrich Merz says there should be no form of \u201cpractical\u201d or de facto annexation of West Bank areas by Israel.<br>He wrote on his X on Monday, that in a phone call with Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of the occupying regime of Israel, the issue was clearly emphasized.<br>Merz also added in a (later removed) message on X: \u201cI am deeply concerned about developments in the Palestinian territories.\u201d<br>According to reports, a spokesperson for the German government told journalists that Merz, during his call with Netanyahu, also urged an end to the war in Lebanon.<br>The German prime minister further asked Netanyahu to engage in peace talks with Lebanon\u2019s government.<br>These remarks come as deadly and destructive attacks by Israel in recent weeks on Lebanon have faced harsh criticism from leaders of some countries around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Germany\u2019s Prime Minister Friedrich Merz says there should be no form of \u201cpractical\u201d or de facto annexation of West Bank areas by Israel.He wrote on his X on Monday, that in a phone call with Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of the occupying regime of Israel, the issue was clearly emphasized.Merz also added in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20110,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20108\/revisions\/20110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}