JERUSALEM, August 18, 2025 (WAFA) – The Jerusalem Governorate announced on Monday that approximately 7,000 residents living in 22 communities in the Jerusalem Badia are facing the threat of forced displacement due to the implementation of Israel’s colonial E1 project, along with the Sovereignty Road  project.

The settlement project would completely isolate and separate the Jabal al-Baba and Wadi Jamal communities from the town of al-Eizariya, where approximately 100 people live.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced several days ago his approval of the construction of thousands of settlement units within the settlement plan in the E1 area, located east of Jerusalem.

Such plan would undermine the possibility of establishing a Palestinian state on the ground, undermine its geographical and demographic unity, and perpetuate the division of the West Bank into isolated areas.

According to B'Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, the implementation of construction plans in the E1 area would create urban contiguity between the Ma'ale Adumim settlement and Jerusalem, deepen the isolation of East Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank, and undermine the geographical contiguity between the northern and southern parts of the West Bank.

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