Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz has ordered his chief of staff to intensify preparations for Israel's planned annexation of areas of the West Bank, a plan that could fuel violence in the Palestinian territories, and this coincided with a phone call between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jared Kushner, adviser to President Donald Trump and the godfather of the US peace plan or what Known as the century deal.
In public statements to deputies of his party, "Blue and White", which is described as the middle, Gantz referred to the recent escalation of violence in the West Bank and the announcement by the Palestinians last month to end security cooperation with Israel because of the issue of annexation.
He said he then ordered Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi to "study all the repercussions and the required preparations" stemming from moving forward with the peace plan announced by US President Donald Trump in January, a plan that could facilitate annexation.
"The Israel Defense Forces should intensify preparations before the planned diplomatic moves on the Palestinians," Gantz said in a separate written statement.
Meanwhile, Israeli media said that Netanyahu telephoned Kushner as part of preparations to impose sovereignty on Palestinian land early next month, without further details.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had pledged to start discussions in the government on July 1 about extending Israeli sovereignty over the Jewish settlements and the Jordan Valley in the West Bank.
The expected Israeli move comes in the context of the alleged "deal of the century" that Trump announced on January 28 during a press conference in Washington, DC, in the presence of Netanyahu.
Trump's alleged plan includes establishing a Palestinian state in the form of an archipelago connected by bridges and tunnels, and not to dismantle settlements, with Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel, and the Jordan Valley under Tel Aviv control.
The plan also canceled the return of Palestinian refugees to their homes from which they were displaced in 1948, despite the existence of international resolutions demanding their return.
Palestinian, Arab and international elites raised the seriousness of the Israeli annexation plans for the occupied West Bank and the Jordan Valley, and discussed ways to confront them, through an electronic press conference of the popular conference for Palestinians abroad.
The Popular Congress announced, on Monday evening, a campaign "to destroy the annexation scheme", with the participation of a group of Palestinian personalities, experts and specialists.
The media interviewer, Rowan Al-Damen, raises questions about what is required from Palestine, Jordan, internationally and internationally to confront these plans and bring them down.