Israel opens up bids for highly sensitive West Bank settlement project
Peace Now said the tender covers 1,234 units and is meant to lock in construction before Israel’s Oct. 27 election.
- On Friday, foreign ministers from Jordan, the UAE, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Egypt condemned Israel's E1 settlement plan, urging the Security Council to take immediate action to halt the project.
- Approved in 2025 by The Civil Administration's Higher Planning Committee, the settlement project involves 3,412 new housing units between Jerusalem and Adumim, expanding the settlement by around 12 square kilometers.
- Adumim Mayor Guy Yifrach recently launched the first 1,400 housing units, praising the plan as "tremendous and major news" for the settlement and Israel as a whole.
- Foreign Secretary Miliband warned that "Britain will not stand back," but Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon rejected the statement, dismissing the "patronising tone of his words" regarding the Palestinian State.
- Critics argue the project attempts to divide the West Bank and isolate East Jerusalem, while nearly 700,000 people now live in some 160 settlements deemed illegal under international law.
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Seven Western countries, including the Netherlands, have strongly criticized a new illegal Israeli settlement that cuts the occupied Palestinian West Bank in two. Israel has already been in a bad light lately, due to violence by settlers and statements by Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
Israel is burying two-state solution with settlement plan that divides West Bank
TEHRAN – The Israeli regime advanced an internationally condemned settlement plan in the occupied West Bank that could split the territory and “bury” the possibility of a two-state solution.
Eight countries, including Turkey, condemned Israel's settlement policies in the occupied Palestinian territories. In a joint statement, the "E1" settlement plan east of East Jerusalem was categorically rejected, and a call was made to halt the plan and end all activities aimed at altering the demographic structure of the Palestinian territories.
SPD parliamentary group: Berlin (ots) - With the opening of the tender procedure for the E1 settlement project, the Israeli government continues to implement its plans to expand the illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. The area between the ...
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