LONDON: US House Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republican officials visited the occupied West Bank on Monday in support of Israeli settlements, The Guardian reported. Johnson met Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz and Foreign Minister Gideon Saar before his visit to the Palestinian territory. The last high-profile American visit to the West Bank was in 2020, when then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo traveled to Psagot, an Israeli settlement near the Palestinian city of Ramallah.

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson visited the West Bank settlement of Ariel, together with U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huchabee, in a highly unusual move from one of…

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry on Monday denounced U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson’s visit to the illegal Israeli settlement of Ariel in the occupied...