Court Approves Tender for New Homes to Be Built in E1, Legal Challenge Remains Open
- The Jerusalem District Court rejected a bid from rights groups to halt a tender for more than 1,200 homes in the E1 area on Tuesday, allowing the project to proceed while petitions challenging the plans remain pending.
- Critics argue that construction in the largely undeveloped area between Jerusalem and Adumim would interrupt Palestinian territorial continuity between the northern and southern West Bank, further separating east Jerusalem from surrounding Palestinian communities.
- Finding no imminent danger of physical change, Judge Nimrod Flax noted that contractors have until October 19 to bid, with winners and building permits required before any actual work can begin.
- Prospective contractors were warned that the project remains under legal challenge; the state promised to notify the court seven days before physical development begins if pending petitions remain undecided.
- Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has promoted the project to prevent a Palestinian state, while British Foreign Secretary Miliband separately cited the development as risking a two-state solution.
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The Central Court of Jerusalem rejected a request by Israeli and Palestinian associations to freeze the bid to build 1234 settlement units in the E1 area east of Jerusalem and warned that the project might impose facts on the ground and prevent the establishment of a Palestinian State.
The Jerusalem court believes that the project, which provides for the construction of several thousand illegal housing units, will not result in any irreversible change in the short term.
Israeli court rejects petition to halt key West Bank settlement project
Israeli court rejects petition to halt key West Bank settlement project An Israeli court on Tuesday rejected a bid from rights groups to halt development of a settlement in the occupied West Bank that would severely undermine the territorial contiguity of a future Palestinian state. The Jerusalem District Court said in a ruling it had dismissed the motion, which aimed to stall the publication of tenders for the settlement east of Jerusalem. Isr…
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