Israel appears set to give formal planning approval to a highly controversial and illegal project for more than 3,400 new homes that has been frozen for decades and which critics say would split the occupied West Bank in half.
Strongly opposed by the international community, the so-called E1 plan would extend the existing Jewish settlement of Ma’ale Adumim towards Jerusalem, further cutting occupied east Jerusalem from the West Bank, and further separating the north and south of the territory.
