{"id":60650,"date":"2026-08-20T15:48:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T15:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=60650"},"modified":"2026-08-20T15:48:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T15:48:48","slug":"israel-opens-up-bids-for-highly-sensitive-west-bank-settlement-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=60650","title":{"rendered":"Israel opens up bids for highly sensitive West Bank settlement project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Israel has opened up tenders for the construction of some 1,200 settlement homes in a strategically important part of the occupied West Bank, as the government seeks to end any chance of a Palestinian state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plans to build on the so-called E1 area &#8211; east of Jerusalem &#8211; have long been internationally condemned, with settlements illegal under international law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The development&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ckgdzxpkdd7o\">would in effect divide the West Bank in two<\/a>&nbsp;and isolate East Jerusalem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband has condemned the publication of a tender as &#8220;an unacceptable and destructive act&#8221;, and called on Israel to &#8220;halt E1 plans immediately, retract the tender and stop all settlement expansion&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Israel&#8217;s foreign minister responded harshly to Miliband&#8217;s statement, which he said he &#8220;reject[ed] outright&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Israel has built about 160 settlements housing 700,000 Jews since it occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem &#8211; land Palestinians want, along with Gaza, for a hoped-for future state &#8211; during the 1967 Middle East war. An estimated 3.3 million Palestinians live alongside them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the fierce international opposition, successive Israeli governments have allowed settlements to grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: Israel has opened up tenders for the construction of some 1,200 settlement homes in a strategically important part of the occupied West Bank, as the government seeks to end any chance of a Palestinian state. Plans to build on the so-called E1 area &#8211; east of Jerusalem &#8211; have long been internationally condemned, with settlements illegal under international law. The development&nbsp;would in effect divide the West Bank in two&nbsp;and isolate East Jerusalem. UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband has condemned the publication of a tender as &#8220;an unacceptable and destructive act&#8221;, and called on Israel to &#8220;halt E1 plans immediately,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60652,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60650\/revisions\/60652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}