Analysts warn E1 plan will fragment Palestinian lands, undermining the viability of a future Palestinian state.

In a reversal of past US policy, the State Department backed the E1 project connecting Maale Adumim to Jerusalem, calling it essential to Israel’s stability and regional peace.

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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,

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy issued a strong condemnation on Wednesday of Israel’s colonialist expansion plan in the area known as E1, warning that

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