US President Biden accepts Bennett invitation to visit Israel

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United States President Joe Biden will visit Israel following an invitation from Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.

While both governments confirmed on Sunday that Biden had accepted the invitation to visit Israel in the coming months, neither side gave a date for the expected trip, reports Al Jazeera.

Bennett visited Biden in Washington in August 2021.

The two leaders spoke on Sunday, when the Israeli prime minister briefed Biden on efforts “to stop the violence and incitement in Jerusalem”, Bennett’s office said in a statement.

More than 300 Palestinians have been arrested and more than 200 wounded since Israeli forces launched incursions at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound – Islam’s third-holiest site – in occupied East Jerusalem starting April 15.

Israeli authorities said they entered the compound to facilitate incursions by far-right Jews to the holy site. The 14-hectare (35-acre compound) houses al-Qibli Mosque and the Dome of the Rock.

On Friday, at least 57 Palestinians were injured by Israeli police within the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

US officials said they have engaged with Israelis, Palestinians and Arab representatives in the region amid the increasing tensions.