E1 is a tract of open land east of Jerusalem that is deemed essential for the viability of a future Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem, areas Israel captured in 1967.

Israel is set to resume the advancement of plans for a controversial West Bank settler project of 3,412 homes known as E1, which it had frozen under pressure from the United States.

West Bank: The E1 project could end the chance of a Palestinian state Issued on: 05/02/2025 - 17:19 Modified: 05/02/2025 - 18:40 ...

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon is reiterating his call for Israel to rescind its settlement plans in the strategic E1 area of the West Bank.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said it never approved plans to build thousands of new houses in Jewish settlements in a particularly controversial part of the West Bank.

In a nod to the United States, Israeli delayed until June 12 a hearing about the pending construction of 3,412 settler homes in E1, an unbuilt neighborhood of the West Bank’s Ma’aleh Adumim ...

The Biden administration is reiterating opposition to Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank that it says undermines efforts to achieve a two-state solution with the Palestinians, following … ...

FRENKEL: The West Bank is shaped somewhat like a kidney, with Jerusalem in the middle. Israeli settlements have carved out large swaths of the West Bank. But the E1 project would have a ...