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United States Agreement to Build Embassy Compound in Jerusalem

Thursday, July 2, 2026
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United States Agreement to Build Embassy Compound in Jerusalem

The United States signed something Wednesday. An aGreement to build a permanent embassy compound in Jerusalem. Israeli officials called it proof of their “unbreakable alliance.”

The plan is for this new base to be set up at the Allenby compound down in southern Jerusalem.

Ambassador Mike Huckabee was there when it happened, speaking at the signing ceremony at Israel’s foreign ministry. He said Washington recognizes Jerusalem as the eternal, indigenous, and forever capital of the Jewish people. A big statement.

“We are going to plant our flag,” he claimed. “Our American flag on the soil of Jerusalem for a permanent, brand new embassy compound. It will be our mothership for all diplomatic activities here in Israel.”

He went further. He brought up history. “I would say God made that decision 3,800 years ago. We finally got around to acknowledging what was determined long before the United States of America even existed.”

This whole move follows Trump’s call back in December 2017. That decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move the embassy out of Tel Aviv. Since then, things have been shifting. Embassies are scattered around Jerusalem now, but they still need a permanent spot. They found one.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said this whole project builds directly on Trump's 2017 decision. He framed it as setting the record straight. “President Trump’s historic decision in 2017 to move the embassy to Jerusalem set things right,” Saar insisted. And now, with the aGreement to start building that permanent complex? It just becomes deeper. More enduring.

That was the line they used for the alliance. The “unbreakable alliance” between Israel and the United States.

But not everyone sees it that way. There’s a huge counterpoint coming from rights groups. Adalah, an Israeli rights group, criticized where they plan to build this embassy. They called it enshrining a profound, historical injustice.

They pointed out the location itself. The site is on land Israel confiscated from Palestinian landowners back in 1950 under that discriminatory ‘Absentees’ Property Law. That’s the core issue for them.

Adalah said they had objected before. They were objecting on behalf of the descendants of those original Palestinian owners. Now, by moving forward with this project, the US government is endorsing Israel’s methods of dispossession and displacement. It violates fundamental property rights. It directly defies international law.

Jerusalem itself remains stuck in that mess. Israel sees it as its undivided capital. Palestinians want East Jerusalem as the center for a future Palestinian state. It just stays that way.

Written by Gree News Team — Senior Editorial Board

Gree News Team covers international news and global affairs at Gree News. Our collective of senior editors is dedicated to providing independent, accurate, and responsible journalism for a global audience.

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