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Israel advances settlement plan and arrests
The Israeli army continues its operations in the West Bank, where it raided several areas and detained more than 30 Palestinians, including the Jerusalem Affairs Minister, Ashraf al-Ajouri. Meanwhile, the plan to build over 1,200 new settlement units in the E1 area east of Jerusalem is ongoing. This scheme aims to divide the West Bank and obstruct the establishment of a contiguous Palestinian state. Additionally, settlers continue to impose a blockade on Palestinian homes in the village of Qusra south of Nablus, which could lead to the potential displacement of more than 300 Palestinians in the Jordan Valley, along with water cuts and pressure on the Palestinian residents. Israel remains eager to implement extensive settlement expansion plans despite international criticism, having issued a tender to build 1,234 settlement units in the E1 project—a plan that threatens to disconnect Jerusalem from its Palestinian surroundings and undermines the possibility of a Palestinian state. Human rights and political organizations view this as a serious escalation in the settlement policies aimed at territorial domination over the Palestinian lands.
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