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, TOI 8 September 2022,
View of the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumin and the area known as E1, in the West Bank on January 2, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
A hearing in a key settlement planning forum regarding the highly controversial E1 construction project has been postponed for the third time without a future date being set.
The left-wing Ir Amim and Peace Now organizations — which have both submitted objections to the project — said they were informed of the postponement by the Higher Planning Committee of the Civil Administration, which oversees settlement planning in the West Bank.







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