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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) — Israel's plan to expand settlements in the West Bank is negatively impacting Palestinians and increasing the risk of their displacement, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said Wednesday.
He said the construction of more than 3,000 settler housing units under Plan E1 would essentially cut off the northern and central parts of the West Bank from the south, with devastating humanitarian consequences.
The impact will also be felt in other parts of the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), OCHA stressed, with 18 Palestinian Bedouin communities facing increased risk of displacement.
“The plan also includes the construction of a bypass road that would divert Palestinian traffic from the main Jerusalem-Jericho road. In this context, OCHA notes that such roads undermine territorial contiguity, increase travel times and negatively impact people’s standard of living and access to services,” the statement said.
Israel's long-standing plan to surround the E1 area with additional sections of the wall would further restrict movement and access and is contrary to the 2004 ICJ advisory opinion that all sections of the barrier in the OPT should be dismantled. –0–
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