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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E1 project aims to split West Bank into 2 parts, cutting off northern cities of Ramallah and Nablus from Bethlehem and Hebron in south - Anadolu Ajansı

I wouldn’t tell the British where to build in London,” the Israeli ambassador said. “We see E1 as part of greater Jerusalem.”The post Hotovely to UK: ‘Don’t tell us where

Foreign ministers from Europe, Australia, and Britain condemned Israel's E1 settlement plan east of Jerusalem, which would fragment Palestinian territory. Despite international outcry, Israel defended its actions under the guise of historical rights,

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

Ma’ale Adumim Mayor Guy Yifrach announced Wednesday that the new neighborhood, to be located in the city’s E1 (Trump 1) “Mevaseret Adumim” area, is to be named in Trump’s honor.

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,

Twenty-one countries, including the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Japan, and Australia, issued a joint statement on Thursday condemning Israel’s decision