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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 366

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A general view shows houses in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba, May 10, 2023. (Wisam Hashlamounn/ Flash90)
June 12, 2023, 9:42 pm
Israel tells US it will advance plans for thousands of settlement homes in late June
Move likely intended to mollify Netanyahu’s hardline coalition partners, a week after US pressured Jerusalem to delay controversial E1 settlement project
By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
Israelis settlers and right wing activists participate in a march in the area known as E1 close to the Israeli West Bank settlement of Ma'ale Adumim in protest at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to block construction there, February 13, 2014. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
June 9, 2023, 5:38 pm
Netanyahu delays meeting on ‘doomsday’ E1 settlement project amid US pressure
Israel notifies Biden administration of decision after PM holds call with Blinken to discuss Saudi normalization
By Jacob Magid
View of the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumin and the E1 area in the West Bank, January 1, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90)
June 6, 2023, 7:48 am
Hearing on controversial E1 settlement project scheduled for next week
Left-wing Peace Now group says move part of an attempt by ‘current government to create conditions for annexation of the West Bank’
By Jeremy Sharon
View of the Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Adumin and the area known as E1, in the West Bank, on January 2, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)
March 12, 2023, 11:27 pm
Hearing for controversial E1 settlement project postponed once again
Approval for thousands of homes east of Jerusalem has been sought by Israel’s right for years: anti-settlement groups say it would undermine the viability of a Palestinian state
By Jeremy Sharon
File: An Israeli settler looks at the West Bank settlement of Ma'ale Adumim from the E1 area on the eastern outskirts of Jerusalem. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)
February 23, 2023, 10:26 pm
Israel advances plans for 7,000 new settler homes, places E1 project back on docket
Figure green-lit by panel this week is largest ever; hearing rescheduled to adjudicate objections to repeatedly delayed plan that would bisect Palestinian contiguity in West Bank
By Jacob Magid
View of the Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Adumin and the area known as E1, in the West Bank, on January 2, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)
September 8, 2022, 6:22 pm
Hearing on controversial E1 settlement plan postponed again
Third and final hearing for public comment on the project – called ‘lethal’ for future Palestinian state by critics – pushed off without new date
By Jeremy Sharon
An Israeli soldier stands at the entrance to the Allenby border crossing, the main border crossing for Palestinians from the West Bank traveling to neighboring Jordan and beyond, Monday, March 10, 2014. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)
July 15, 2022, 6:14 am
Biden to announce eased access for Palestinians at Allenby crossing, more measures
President to unveil extra $316 million in aid for Palestinians as well as several steps he says Israel will take to boost PA economy, including ones announced last year
By Jacob Magid
Palestinian laborers work at a construction site in a new housing project in Har Homa in East Jerusalem, July 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
July 12, 2022, 9:28 pm
Ahead of Biden visit, Israel delays hearing on construction in East Jerusalem
Shaked claims that building meeting is delayed for only a week, while opposition MKs slam government for ‘destructive measures’ that are a ‘surrender to terror’
By Jacob Magid and Amy Spiro
A view of the Ma'ale Adumim settlement in the West Bank, January 28, 2020. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
July 4, 2022, 9:17 pm
Israel pushes off contentious E1 settlement project amid US pressure
Defense Ministry panel’s meeting on objections to massive housing plan delayed from four days after Biden’s trip until September 12
By Jacob Magid
A Jewish settler looks at the West Bank settlement of Ma'ale Adumim, from the E-1 area on the eastern outskirts of Jerusalem, on December 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Sebastian Schooner/File)
July 3, 2022, 10:12 pm
Progressive Democrats press Biden on Israeli E1 settlement plans ahead of trip
29 lawmakers urge administration to make clear that project cutting off Palestinian neighborhoods in East Jerusalem from Ramallah and Bethlehem is a ‘red line’
By Jacob Magid
US President Joe Biden with then-Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the White House in Washington, DC, August 27, 2021. (Sarahbeth Maney-Pool/Getty Images/AFP)
June 15, 2022, 9:56 pm
US pushing Israel to avoid unilateral steps in lead-up to Biden visit
Washington particularly concerned about Israeli plan to advance ‘doomsday’ settlement construction in E1 area, with PA threatening to downgrade ties if such steps proceed
By Jacob Magid
A Palestinian boy rides a donkey in the E-1 area near the West Bank settlement of Ma'ale Adumim, December 5, 2012. (Sebastian Scheiner/AP)
May 31, 2022, 8:39 pm
Israel puts E1 settlement project back on agenda, weeks ahead of Biden trip
After shelving plan bisecting West Bank in January amid international pressure and assuring US it wasn’t moving forward, Jerusalem places project back on docket for meeting in July
By Jacob Magid
US Ambassador Tom Nides is interviewed by The Times of Israel at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, on January 7, 2022. (David Azagury/US Embassy)
March 16, 2022, 4:35 am
US envoy looks to bolster West Bank economy with 4G service, tech offerings
Ambassador Tom Nides says he will ‘pound tables’ with Israeli minister to get ball rolling on extending 4G service to all Palestinians, wants PA to have role at Allenby crossing
By Jacob Magid
Then-Israel ambassador to France Aliza Bin Noun, 2015. (CC BY-SA Erez Lichtfeld, Wikimedia Commons)
January 7, 2022, 12:16 am
‘You’re pissing me off!’ Israeli diplomat reportedly yells at European envoys
Aliza Bin Noun loses cool after diplomats from 16 countries use routine meeting on West Bank to present list of concerns regarding Israeli conduct beyond Green Line
By ToI Staff
A picture taken from the controversial E1 corridor in the West Bank shows the settlement of Ma'ale Adumim in the background, Feb. 25, 2020. (Ahamd Gharabli/AFP)
January 6, 2022, 12:59 am
Plans to move forward with E1 settlement construction reportedly on hold
A meeting to hear objections to the decades-stalled project in the highly controversial area outside Jerusalem has reportedly been indefinitely delayed
By ToI Staff
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