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Court cancels Israeli PM Netanyahu’s trial hearings this week

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US President Donald Trump suggested the trial could interfere with negotiations with Hamas and Iran.

JERUSALEM: The Jerusalem district court cancelled this week’s hearings in prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s long-running corruption trial, accepting a request the Israeli leader made citing classified diplomatic and security grounds.

It was unclear whether a social media post by US President Donald Trump influenced the court’s decision. Trump suggested the trial could interfere with Netanyahu’s ability to join negotiations with the Palestinian rebel group Hamas and Iran.

The ruling, seen by Reuters, said that new reasons provided by Netanyahu, the head of Israel’s spy agency Mossad and the military intelligence chief justified cancelling the hearings.

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