Jerusalem Governorate: 7,000 Citizens Threatened with Forced Displacement from the Jerusalem Desert

SadaNews: The Jerusalem Governorate announced today, Monday, that around 7,000 citizens living in 22 communities in the Jerusalem Desert are facing the threat of forced displacement due to the implementation of the Israeli colonial project known as E1 alongside the Sovereignty Road project.

It added that, in addition to the colonial project, the communities of Jabal Baba and Wadi Jaml would be nearly completely isolated and separated from the town of Al-Eizariya, where about 100 people reside in these two communities.

A few days ago, the Finance Minister in the extremist occupying government, Bezalel Smotrich, announced his approval for the construction of thousands of colonial units within the colonial plan in area "E1" located east of Jerusalem, which means undermining the opportunity to realize the Palestinian state on the ground, compromising its geographical and demographic unity, and entrenching the division of the West Bank into isolated areas.

According to the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, "B'Tselem", the implementation of the construction plans in area E1 will create urban continuity between the Ma'ale Adumim settlement and Jerusalem, will increase the severity of the isolation of East Jerusalem from other parts of the West Bank, and will affect the geographical continuity between the northern and southern West Bank.