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SINGAPORE: Singapore has urged the Israeli government to halt settlement expansion plans in the West Bank, reiterating that such settlements are illegal under international law.<\/p>\n
In a statement on Monday (Aug 24), a spokesperson for Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said that the proposed construction in the E1 area would “further fragment the West Bank and severely undermine the prospects for a viable two-state solution”.<\/p>\n
Israeli authorities last week opened bidding for more than 1,200 homes in the area, sparking condemnation from France, Italy, Britain and Germany. Green-lit by Israel last year, the<\/span> E1 plan would further separate east Jerusalem, occupied and annexed by Israel and predominantly inhabited by Palestinians, from the West Bank.<\/p>\n The plan for the roughly 12 sq km parcel of land known as E1 seeks to eventually build around 3,400 homes on the ultra-sensitive tract of land, which lies between Jerusalem and the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim.<\/p>\n \u201cSingapore urges the Israeli government to halt these settlement expansion plans,\u201d the MFA spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE: Singapore has urged the Israeli government to halt settlement expansion plans in the West Bank, reiterating that such settlements are illegal under international law….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--YjccOmQh--\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2024-04:reuters_1,w_0.1\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/one-cms\/core\/2026-08-13T095613Z_1_LYNXMPEM7C0SJ_RTROPTP_3_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-SETTLERS-QUSRA.JPG?itok=366ivRXY","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4088,3854,2415,1661,28850,22,4024,7625],"class_list":["post-79219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-bank","tag-halt","tag-israel","tag-planned","tag-settlements","tag-singapore","tag-urges","tag-west","wpcat-2-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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