In a whirlwind trip to Israel to help salvage Trump's ceasefire deal, Vance weighed in on Netanyahu politics and toured the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Get the latest news and live updates as the government shutdown continues, Trump sanctions Russia in a push for a ceasefire in Ukraine and Rubio heads to Israel amid Gaza truce.

The appliance was sent to the West Bank last year but was impounded at an Israeli port where it has racked up £16,000 in fees.

Tensions intensified in the occupied West Bank on Thursday as Israeli soldiers intervened during confrontations between Israeli settlers and Palestinian farmers harvesting olives.

IDF troops demolish the home of a Palestinian terrorist accused of being an accomplice to a deadly shooting attack in the West Bank in May, during which a pregnant woman was killed, forcing doctors to perform an emergency C-section to deliver her son, who died two weeks later.