"Israeli authorities are engaged in multiple major efforts, including building settlements and pursuing annexation, to ensure there will be no Palestinian state in the future. Israeli authorities are expected to advance plans to build 9,000 new housing units in an illegal settlement on the site of the abandoned Qalandiya airport in occupied East Jerusalem, in another attempt to cut off Palestinian lands from each other and block any possibility of a contiguous Palestinian state ever emerging."
"The so-called Atarot neighbourhood in northern East Jerusalem, reminiscent of the E1 plan to undermine Palestinian statehood, is to be discussed and have its outlines approved on Wednesday by the District Planning and Building Committee, according to Israeli group Peace Now. The advocacy group said the new settlement is envisioned to be built within a densely populated Palestinian urban area, stretching from Ramallah in the occupied West Bank and Kafr Aqab in the north through the Qalandiya refugee camp, ar-Ram, Beit Hanina and Bir Nabala."
Israeli authorities plan to build 9,000 housing units on the site of the abandoned Qalandiya airport in occupied East Jerusalem, creating an illegal settlement aimed at cutting off Palestinian lands and blocking a contiguous Palestinian state. The Atarot neighbourhood project would form an Israeli enclave within a densely populated Palestinian urban area stretching from Ramallah and Kafr Aqab through Qalandiya refugee camp, ar-Ram, Beit Hanina and Bir Nabala. The project would prevent connection between East Jerusalem and surrounding Palestinian areas, undermine Palestinian sovereignty prospects, and reflects broader settlement expansion and annexation efforts by the current far-right government, according to Peace Now.
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