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Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced plans to build over 3,000 homes in the long-stalled E1 settlement project in the occupied West Bank of Palestine. Smotrich said it will “bury the idea of a Palestinian state” because “there is nothing to recognise and no one to recognise.

"The plan is the 'final nail in the coffin' for the concept of a Palestinian state," Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich remarked. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich approved the new E1 settlement plan near Ma’aleh Adumim,