Israel, E1 and West Bank
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Israel has reportedly approved the construction of 126 new housing units in the settlement of Sa-Nur in the West Bank's Jenin Governorate.
In Al Eizariya, Mohammed Faroun sleeps on the floor of his shuttered café, waiting for Israeli bulldozers. His business, like thousands of others, stands in the way of a new highway and the E1 settlement expansion east of Jerusalem,
UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy blasts Israeli plans to build in the E-1 area, calling it a "flagrant breach of international law" that undermines the two-state solution. Germany condemns as well.
E1 begins on the eastern slopes of the Mount of Olives and runs along the road towards Ma’aleh Adumim. Every Israeli prime minister since Yitzhak Rabin has planned and promised to build there for salient reasons: municipal and strategic imperatives that only have grown with time.