In the long contest over land and sovereignty in the occupied West Bank, the United Kingdom has moved from diplomatic language to economic consequence, imposing sanctions on Israeli settlements as Israel opened construction tenders in the E1 corridor east of Jerusalem. Israel answered with counter-measures of its own, transforming a territorial dispute into a bilateral confrontation. At the centre of this exchange sits a geography that is not merely strategic but existential — a stretch of land whose development would sever the West Bank in two and leave communities like Khan al Ahmar stranded
BBC visits West Bank village threatened by Israeli settlement expansion in E1 area
Palestinian communities in Khan al Ahmar face displacement and isolation if E1 settlement expansion proceeds as planned.
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