Israel opens up bids for highly sensitive West Bank settlement project
Peace Now said the ministry opened bids for 1,234 homes to lock in contracts before the election and make the project harder to reverse.
- On Tuesday, Israel's Housing Ministry opened tenders for 1,234 housing units in the E1 area, with bids due October 19, just days before the October 27 national election.
- First proposed in the 1990s, the E1 project remained frozen for decades due to international pressure, but the current government now aggressively prioritizes the plan to establish irreversible facts before the vote.
- Rights groups warn the project threatens to sever the West Bank's north-south corridor, isolating East Jerusalem and putting over 18 Bedouin communities, including Khan al-Ahmar, at risk of forcible transfer.
- UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband condemned the tender as "unacceptable," threatening targeted sanctions, while Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar rejected the criticism, calling the UK's tone "patronising."
- The project ultimately seeks to build 3,401 units connecting Jerusalem to Maale Adumim, a move opponents contend effectively buries the two-state solution by creating contiguous Jewish settlement.
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8 nations condemn Israeli settlement expansion and E1 project
Foreign ministers of Egypt, Qatar, Jordan, the UAE, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia voiced their categorical condemnation of Israel’s ongoing illegal settlement policies in the occupied Palestinian territory, rejecting the E1 settlement plan and related activities east of occupied East Jerusalem. In a joint statement on Friday, the ministers renewed their condemnation of settler violence and violations against Palestinians and thei…
The bidding plan for the construction of 1,234 housing units in the E1 area surrounding Jerusalem culminates a project cherished by Israeli governments of every sign. What changes now is the impunity with which Israel could carry it out.
CONFEDERACY: UAE, Joins Saudi Arabia and six other countries condemning Israel’s E1 settlement plan
According to a report from Gulf News, foreign ministers from the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, Indonesia, Pakistan, Türkiye and Egypt have issued a blistering joint condemnation of Israel’s E1 settlement plan, warning that the project represents a dangerous escalation that threatens to destroy any remaining chance for a viable Palestinian state. The […]
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.
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