‘Unlawful’ Israeli E1 settlement plan would sever northern, southern West Bank, warns UN chief

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday warned that Israel’s “unlawful” plans to expand settlements in the E1 area of the occupied West Bank would sever its northern and southern parts and deal a serious blow to the two-state solution, Anadolu reports. “In the occupied West Bank, relentless illegal settlement expansion, demolitions, displacement, and evictions are accelerating,” Guterres said at the opening session of the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP). Over 37,000 Palestinians were displaced in the West Bank in 2025 alone, a year that also saw record levels of Israeli settler violence, Guterres said, adding: “The recently published tender by Israel for 3,401 housing units in the E1 area – alongside […]