'Unlawful' Israeli E1 settlement plan would sever northern, southern West Bank, warns UN chief Related news

Tamara Ceaikovski

HAMILTON, Canada 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. "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