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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">President Donald Trump will visit the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Judaism&#8217;s holiest prayer site, the White House said on Monday amid controversy in Israel over reported comments by a U.S. diplomat that the wall was in the occupied West Bank.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Trump will say a prayer at the Western Wall, national security adviser H.R. McMaster said, as well as pay a visit to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, considered by Christians to be the site of Jesus&#8217; tomb.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The wall, representing the remains of the Jewish Second Temple, sits on territory Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war and has been a flashpoint of violence in the Israel-Palestinian conflict.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Israel will be the second stop on Trump&#8217;s first foreign trip, following Saudi Arabia. The Republican president will meet with Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Bethlehem.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The announcement of Trump&#8217;s visit to the Jewish holy site came amid the controversy in Israel over a report that a U.S. diplomat preparing Trump&#8217;s visit referred to the Western Wall as being part of the Israeli-occupied West Bank.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Israel&#8217;s Channel 2 reported that during a planning meeting between U.S. and Israeli officials, the Israelis were told that Trump&#8217;s visit to the wall was private, Israel did not have jurisdiction in the area and that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not welcome to accompany Trump there.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Israel considers all of Jerusalem as its indivisible capital, a claim that is not recognized internationally.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">An official in Netanyahu&#8217;s office said on Monday that Israel has contacted Washington about the matter.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Asked about the matter, a White House official told Reuters on Tuesday: &#8220;These comments were not authorized by the White House. They do not reflect the U.S. position and certainly not the president&#8217;s position.&#8221;</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">McMaster sidestepped questions on Tuesday about whether the Trump administration considers the Western Wall part of Israel.</span></p>
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