Israel aiming to 'bury the idea of a Palestinian state' with settlement
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Israel is moving forward with controversial plans to build thousands of new housing units in the occupied West Bank, splitting the territory in two, a scheme far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says would “permanently bury the idea of a Palestinian state”.
The E1 settlement project, frozen for decades because of vociferous international opposition, would connect Jerusalem to the settlement of Maale Adumim, making a future Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem virtually impossible. It would also split the West Bank in half, preventing the establishment of a contiguous Palestinian state.

Smotrich announced the pending approval of 3401 new housing units on Thursday in a press conference held on the site of the planned construction.

An Israeli flag flies along a highway near the settlement of Carmel in the South Hebron Hills of the West Bank on August 4.(Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images via CNN Newsource)

The Israeli settlement watchdog “Peace Now” blasted the advancement of the E1 plan, deeming it “deadly for the future of Israel and for any chance of achieving a peaceful two-state solution”.

“We are standing at the edge of an abyss, and the government is driving us forward at full speed,” it said, in a statement.

“There is a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and to the terrible war in Gaza — the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel — and it will ultimately come.

“The government’s annexation moves are taking us further away from this solution and guaranteeing many more years of bloodshed.”

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