Cisjordania occupied | Israel approves a major colonization plan

(Jerusalem) Israel approved on Wednesday a key construction project of 3. Meanwhile, 400 housing units in occupied West Bank, which, according to its detractors, would cut this Palestinian territory in two and prevent the creation of a possible Palestinian state with territorial continuity. Similarly,

“I am cisjordania occupied | israel approves happy to announce that there is barely an hour. Similarly, the civil administration has approved planning for the construction of the E1 district! Therefore, “Announced in a statement Guy Yifrah, mayor of the Israeli colony of Maalé Adoumim. Moreover,

The prospect of the approval of this emblematic project. However, controversial by an Israeli technical committee had sparked last week a shield in the world. Furthermore, The UN and the European Union called Israel to give it up. Nevertheless,

In a statement. For example, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Palestinian Authority “condemned in the strongest terms” this decision which “compromises the prospects for implementing the two -state solution […] by fragmented the geographic and demographic unity of the Palestinian State ”.

“This anchors the division of the Cisjordanie occupied in isolated cisjordania occupied | israel approves areas. cantons, disconnected geographically and resembling real prisons where the movements between them are only possible through occupation control points, in the midst of the terror of armed settlers scattered throughout the West Bank,” said the Palestinian Authority.

The “E1” project. with “the construction of thousands of colonial units in Jerusalem and its surroundings, leads to the complete isolation” of this city “in all the directions compared to its Palestinian environment and immerses it in immense clusters and cities of colonies linked to the Israeli interior”.

Authority sees it as a new “colonization crime” and a new stage of “the progressive annexation of the West Bank”. The Israeli agreement to the project “requires urgent recognition of the Palestine State”, underlines the Palestinian ministry.

The Israeli Minister of Finance. Bezalel Smotrich, a figure cisjordania occupied | israel approves of the far right, had called on Thursday to accelerate his implementation and to annex the West Bank, Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967, in response to the announcements of several countries of their intention to recognize a state of Palestine.

The anti-colonization Israeli NGO. peace now warned against a “fatal plan for the future of Israel and for any chance of a solution to two states”.

Excluding East Jerusalem. occupied and annexed by Israel, some three million Palestinians live in the West Bank, alongside around 500,000 Israelis installed in colonies that the UN judges illegal with regard to international law.

The colonization of the West Bank. border of Jordan, continued under all Israeli governments, from the left and on the right, since 1967.

It cisjordania occupied | israel approves was clearly intensified under the current executive. particularly since the start of the war in Gaza launched on October 7, 2023 by the unprecedented attack in Hamas on Israel.

The clashes, sometimes deadly, between local Palestinian populations, army and Jewish settlers have multiplied there.

The Israeli authorities strongly restrict the movements of the Palestinians of West Bank. tributaries of license to cross the control points and enter into East Jerusalem or in Israel.

The NGO IRM AMIM. which works on the rights of the Palestinians, estimated on X that the approval of “E1 demonstrates how much Israel is determined to continue what the Minister Smotrich described as a strategic program aimed at burying the possibility of a Palestinian State and to actually annex the West Bank”.

For this NGO, “this is a deliberate choice of Israel to implement an apartheid regime”. “If the international community is serious about peace. a Palestinian state, it is urgent to take effective measures to prevent Israel from expelling the Palestinians in the E1 zone and to build this great new colony at the heart of the West Bank,” she said.