The Israeli Subcommittee for Objections within the Higher Planning Committee is scheduled to discuss objections to the E1 plan next Monday Hebrew media sources revealed on Wednesday.
E1 aims to create a bloc of settlements between Ma’ale Adumim and Jerusalem prevent Palestinian territorial continuity between the southern West Bank and its north and promote the annexation of the Ma’ale Adumim bloc to Israel.
The plan includes the establishment of 3412 settlement units accommodating 14500 settlers on Palestinian lands east of Jerusalem.
According to the Peace Now rights group construction in E1 is considered essentially fatal to the prospect of a two-state solution because it divides the West Bank into two regions—a northern and a southern region—and prevents the development of the central Ramallah-East Jerusalem-Bethlehem metropolis in the West Bank.
