Senior officials in the US administration, who visited Tel Aviv in recent weeks, warned Israeli officials during closed talks about the continuation of the government's policy with regard to the West Bank, and its impact on undermining relations between the two sides.

And according to the Hebrew newspaper Haaretz, political and security authorities believe that legalizing settlement outposts and allowing their establishment and doubling settler violence will not only harm relations between Israel and the Gulf states, and the chances of “establishing relations with Saudi Arabia, but it will also harm cooperation with the United States, and this may affect the issue of granting a visa exemption.” to its lands.

The newspaper quoted those sources as saying that the United States is very concerned about the manifestations of settler violence against the Palestinians, including those who hold American citizenship. Ministers and members of the coalition and the government, which was interpreted as intended to encourage more attacks.

The United States also expressed its anger at the decision to close the investigation file into the circumstances of the martyrdom of the Palestinian elderly citizen, Amad al-Asaad, after he was detained by an Israeli military force near Ramallah, as Washington expected to prosecute the soldiers involved in the event.