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Israel plans to build thousands of houses in controversial E1 corridor

Today, some 380,000 Israelis live in 135 West Bank settlements, with another 200,000 in east Jerusalem.

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Israeli settler watchdog Peace Now is warning in a new report that the Israeli Housing Ministry is seeking a massive series of new settlement expansions cutting across all sections of the West Bank, totaling 55,548 new housing units, including two new settlements. The Palestinians strongly object to settlement of the area, saying it would separate a future Palestinian state in the West Bank from east Jerusalem, their hoped-for capital, and drive a wedge between the northern and southern flanks of the West Bank.


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The US, UN and European Union oppose all Israeli settlement building but have particular concerns about plans for E1.


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Israel has returned the bodies of three more Palestinians killed while carrying out attacks on Israeli targets, the Palestinian news agency Maan reported Tuesday.

US-backed peace talks between the Palestinians and Israel collapsed in April 2014 amid bitter mutual recriminations.

E1, also known as East 1, is 12.4 square kilometres of land northeast of East Jerusalem and west of Ma’ale Adumim, which is home to 40,000 residents.

It later annexed east Jerusalem in a move never recognised by the worldwide community.

Palestinians carry the body of 16-year-old Mamoon Raed Muhammed al-Khatib, and the body of Essam Thawabteh, two young alleged Palestinians attackers whose bodies were held by Israeli forces, in Bethlehem on Sunday.

Since the violence erupted at the start of October 137 Palestinians, 20 Israelis, an American and an Eritrean have been killed, according to a AFP count.

An Israeli soldier was injured in a car-ramming attack on Thursday morning in the West Bank, at the Betot Junction close to the settlement of Tapuach.

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The Israeli victims died in lone-wolf stabbing, shooting and vehicular attacks by Palestinians.

Members of the Israeli armed forces at the Howwara checkpoint Nablus West Bank 25 December 2015.. EPA  ALAA BADARNEH