“America and its allies are not going to be intimidated by Putin and his reckless words and threats," President Joe Biden tells reporters.

The sovereignty bid guaranteed under the 2020 proposal was nipped in the bud because Gantz was wedded to a flawed paradigm, and in the process created a diplomatic quagmire.

An Israeli military spokesman said troops were in the vicinity at the time to search for Palestinians suspected of fleeing into the village after having thrown rocks at motorists.

Samet, who survived the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in World War II, was running a few minutes late for services at the Tree of Life synagogue in 2018.