United States President Donald Trump has sent a letter to Israel’s President Isaac Herzog asking him to pardon Benjamin Netanyahu, slamming the corruption charges against the Israeli prime minister as “political” and “unjustified”.

Trump’s letter on Wednesday comes a month after the US-brokered ceasefire came into effect in Gaza, ushering in a fragile truce amid daily Israeli attacks and aid restrictions.

In his letter, the US president cited Netanyahu’s leadership in the war, an assault that killed more than 69,000 Palestinians, including at least 20,000 children, and which United Nations investigators have described as a genocide.

“I hereby call on you to fully pardon Benjamin Netanyahu , who has been a formidable and decisive War Time Prime Minister, and is now leading Israel i

See Full Page