US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has warned Israel that unilaterally imposing laws in the occupied areas of the West Bank and taking over the occupied territories is a threat to the peace process. The warning came as Israel’s parliament passed a resolution imposing its law on the West Bank, a controversial move considered by the Palestinians to be a proposed future state territory.

America warned
Marco Rubio said, ‘Efforts to annex the West Bank are a potential threat to the peace agreement. Israel is a democratic country, it can take its vote and position, but at the present time this step can give adverse results. Washington has repeatedly warned that any unilateral annexation of the West Bank would be considered crossing the ‘red line’. President Donald Trump had clearly said in September, ‘I will not allow Israel to occupy the West Bank. This won’t happen.’

How is the situation in the West Bank?
Israel captured the West Bank from Jordan during the 1967 Six-Day War and has maintained military control over the area ever since. Although successive governments have avoided formal annexation, they have expanded settlements and declared large tracts of land ‘state land’, blocking Palestinian ownership and development.

Following the Hamas attack in October 2023 and Israel’s military action in Gaza, Israel’s right-wing government accelerated settlement approvals in the West Bank. Israeli settlement attacks also increased during the same period. According to UN data, more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces or settlements in the West Bank since October 2023. There were 757 recorded attacks in the first half of 2025 alone, which is 13% more than the previous year.

Rubio said such steps could jeopardize delicate regional diplomacy. He reiterated that President Trump has made it clear that America cannot support such steps at this time.

Abraham Accord: The Abraham Agreement, which normalized relations between Israel and many Arab countries, is now in crisis. The agreement was reached in September 2020, in the first term of US President Donald Trump. Under this, many Arab countries including the United Arab Emirates (UAE) normalized relations with Israel.

The UAE has now warned that if Israel occupies the West Bank, it will damage the agreement and the expectations of President Trump may weaken.

Israeli’s plan to capture West Bank

The UAE warning has come at a time when Israel is considering a plan to occupy a large part of Palestine’s West Bank. This is considered to be the answer to the steps of Western countries that recognize Palestinian regions. Only US President Trump can do so that this move can be stopped. The message of UAE is clear that if the US does not stop Israel, then the important efforts of the Trump administration’s foreign policy may face a crisis.

UAE describes West Bank as red line

The UAE has already warned Israel that capturing the West Bank will have to cross the ‘Red Line’. UAE says that this will weaken the spirit of Abraham Agreement. A senior Amirati officer described it as a threat to two state solutions. The Palestinian Authority has welcomed the UAE’s stance, while the Israeli government has not yet made any official comments. In the government of Prime Minister Netanyahu, right -wing Finance Minister Bejelle Smotrich recently proposed to capture about four to five parts of the West Bank.

Since the six -day war of 1967, Israel has settled around 160 settlements in West Bank and Eastern Jerusalem, in which about 7 lakh Jews live. At the same time, 33 lakh Palestinians live in these settlements and surrounding areas. These settlements are considered illegal under international law, and Palestinians want it for an independent nation in the future.