Eitan Melet, a director at Israeli lobby "Safeguarding Eternity" sits next to a map near ruins of the ancient desert fortress of Cypros, overlooking the Palestinian city of Jericho, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank June 23, 2020. Picture taken June 23, 2020. REUTERS/Nir Elias
NEAR JERICHO, West Bank (Reuters) - The Israeli government faces calls from campaigners to declare sovereignty over ancient Jewish ruins on land in the occupied West Bank that Israel does not plan to annex under U.S. President Donald Trump's peace blueprint.
The annexation plan, which the government is due to start discussing as of Wednesday, envisages Israel annexing Jewish settlements and the Jordan Valley - some 30% of the West Bank. Under Trump's plan, a Palestinian state would be created in the rest of the West Bank, occupied by Israel since a 1967 war.
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