Israeli minister announces settlement plans to “thwart the Palestinian State”

The Israeli far -right finance minister Besalel Smotrich said he would approve plans to build more than 3,000 homes in a controversial settlement project in the occupied West Coast – a move that he said would prevent the creation of a Palestinian state.

The so -called E1 project between the settlement of Jerusalem and Maale Adumim has been frozen for decades against the backdrop of fierce opposition internationally. The building there will effectively tear off the west coast of occupied East Jerusalem and significantly impedes its territorial neighborhood.

“The plan will bury the idea of a Palestinian state,” said Smotrich, according to Israeli media.

Permissions are considered illegal under international law, although Israel disputes this.

They are one of the most controversial problems between Israel and the Palestinians. About 700,000 settlers live in approximately 160 settlements on the west coast and East Jerusalem, according to the Israeli Laying Group now – the landed Palestinians are looking for a future independent state.

“After decades of international pressure and freezing, we violate the conventions and associate Maale Adumim with Jerusalem,” said Smotrich.

“This is Zionism in the best case – the construction, settlement and strengthening of our sovereignty in the land of Israel.”

This follows declarations in recent days with an increasing number of countries of their intention to recognize a Palestinian state in the coming months, which Israel condemned.

By announcing the plan of a press conference with the chairman of the Board of Organization Jesha Israel Ganz and Maale Mayor Adumim Guy Iphrah, the Smotrich said the land was given to the Jews of God.

Asked by BBC what message, plans sent to the likes of the UK and France, which plan to Recognize a Palestine State Later this yearHe said, “It won’t happen. There will be no condition to admit it.”

Mir said now: “The Netanyahu government uses every minute to deepen the annexation on the west coast and prevent the possibility of a bilateral solution.

“It is clear to everyone today that the only solution to the conflict and the only way to win Hamas is through the creation of a Palestinian state with Israel.

“The Israeli government condemns us to continue bloodshed instead of working to end.”

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry called the new settlement plan “Expanding the crimes of genocide, displacement and annexation”.

Israel has long rejected such accusations, but leading Israeli human rights organizations claim that the country’s behavior in the war in Gaza represents a genocide against the Palestinian populationS

I tucked in with the Minister of National Security Itar Ben-Gvir, was sanctioned by the United Kingdom in June over the “multiple incitement of violence against the Palestinian Communities” of the occupied West coast.

The construction of 3 401 residential units in the E1 area has been frozen for 20 years. The development of the area has long been seen as an effective blocking of the creation of a Palestinian state because of its strategic situation, separating the regions south of Jerusalem from those in the north, preventing a neighboring Palestinian urban area connecting Ramala, East Jerusalem and Bethlehem.

Following Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, Israel’s pressure on the Palestinians from the west coast increased dramatically, justified as legitimate security measures.

The bigger part of the international community considers that the agreements are illegal under international law – a position supported by an advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) last year.