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Here are more details about the controversial plan to significantly expand a settlement near the occupied East Jerusalem.
The decision of the High Planning Council, which is gathered next week, is expected to support the plan after rejecting the objections of Israeli NGOs.
The expected decision will come after the Israeli Smotrich, who believes that Israel believes that the construction on the Palestinian state will bury the Palestinian state ”, which supports Israel’s far -right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who supports Israel’s plan and imposition through the occupied West Bank.
Smotrich is a young minister who also serves at the Israeli Ministry of Defense with the supervision of planning problems in the occupied Palestinian regions. In June, he was sanctioned by Itamar Ben-Gvir, the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, to encourage repeated violence against Palestinian communities.
Smotrich, a settler planned in Ma’ale Adumim on Thursday, said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump agreed to revive the development of E1, but were not approved.
Although the approval of the plan is a significant step, it was uncertain how Smotrich bought Netanyahu and Trump Administration on Thursday.
Netanyahu did not comment on Smotrich’s words, and the US State Department survived the E1 issue when questioned.
The settlers reportedly attacked Palestinian villages in a way that the large West Bank settlement expansion is approved.
Welcome to the live scope of Israel’s Gaza War. A few Palestinian peoples were reported to have been wounded in the attack of Israeli settlers in the South West Bank village. SusiaTo the south of Hebron, According to Israel Times. A man and his wife were injured in the attack and reportedly taken to hospital for treatment.
Separately, Israeli settlers reportedly attacked the village. AtaraHe also opened fire on the occupied West Bank and several Palestinian vehicles. There was no immediate reports on any loss or arrest.
The attacks have been between a wave of violence in the West Bank, where more than 1000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli settlers and soldiers since October 7, 2023.
For settlers who act against the Palestinians, accountability is particularly rare, especially under the current right -wing government of Israel.
Israel’s extreme right finance minister, Bezalel smotrichIn a statement on Wednesday, approximately 3,400 new housing units will be built in the Israeli -occupied key, and that he will effectively bury the “idea of the Palestinian state”.
As my colleague Peter Beaumont states in this story, the E1 plan will expand Ma’ale Adumim’s current Jewish settlement towards Jerusalem, cut East Jerusalem further than the West Bank and will separate the north and south of the region. The plan still requires official approval, but despite the major international opposition, a final procedure is expected to pass an obstacle.
The announcement comes after some key Western allies of Israel, which is promised to soon recognize the Palestinian state under certain circumstances due to Israel’s humanitarian crisis caused by Israel in Gaza.
“This plan burys the idea of a Palestinian state,” he said on Thursday. “Today, everyone who tries to get to know a Palestinian state in the world will receive an answer from us. Not in documents, not in decisions or statements – in facts.” We will have more about this and other developments from the Middle East in a short time.
