The spokesman for the Israeli defense forces (Idf), the Brigadier Effie Defin general, confirms that the Army of the Jewish state has started the first phase of Gaza City’s Earth’s Earth’s invasion. “We started the preliminary operations and the early stages of the attack: our forces already control the periphery” of the city, said Dedin in an official press release cited by the international media.
What is the E1 corridor that divides the West Bank and destroys the dream of two states
Bedordania broken in two, divided by a portion of the territory that on the one hand combines East Jerusalem with the settlement of colonists of Ma’alo Adumim, with the edges of the Judea desert, and which on the other separates the Ramallah region from that of Bethlehem. This is the E1 block (East1), the controversial corridor designed in the 90s in the east of Jerusalem. An area of about 12 square kilometers on which, in the intentions of the Israeli government, over 3,400 housing units for settlers will now have to arise.
The goal is to prevent the fact that a vast metropolitan area is created between Ramallah and Bethlehem, a region that would become the beating heart of a future state of Palestine. The area, on the other hand, would populate with tens of thousands of colonists who would join the approximately 40 thousand inhabitants who already reside in the settlement of Ma’alo Adumim.
The strategic interest of Israel is clear, with the fails of the government that without maximum terms underline the purpose of the operation: to definitively prevent a state of Palestine, thus placing the main proposal of the international community which is that of the ‘solution of the two states’, of the future coexistence between Israel and Palestine.
The E1 project had been frozen in 2012 for the strong pressures on the second Netanyahu government by the international community, including the United States and Europe. The plan was in fact considered as a real threat to the peace process that was trying to progress. Now the operation of the Netanyahu government, including the Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.
Just Smotrich made the announcement of the green light to the new settlement. The settlements are communities inhabited by Israeli citizens in the Palestinian territories illegally occupied starting from the six -day war of 1967. These settlements are present in the bordered West Bank (framed in the Giudea and Samaria administrative area), which is largely under Israeli civil administration, and in the heights of the Golan, annexed to Israel in 1981. The construction of Israeli settlements is considered illegal by international community.