E1 (West Bank)
Area of the West Bank northeast of East Jerusalem
E1 (West Bank)
E1 (short for "East 1"; Hebrew: מְבַשֶּׂרֶת אֲדֻמִּים, romanized: Mevaseret Adumim, lit. 'Herald of Adumim'), also called the E1 area, E1 zone or E1 corridor, is an area of the Israeli-occupied West Bank within the municipal boundary of the Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Adumim. It is located adjacent to and northeast of East Jerusalem and to the west of Ma'ale Adumim. It covers an area of 12 square kilometres (4.6 sq mi), which is home to a number of Bedouin communities including the village of Khan al-Ahmar. The national headquarters of the Israel Police is also located there. The area is politically significant due to plans formalized in 1999 to create an Israeli urban contiguity joining Ma'ale Adumim and Jerusalem. The E1 project would complete a crescent of Israeli settlements physically separating East Jerusalem from the West Bank, jeopardizing the prospects of a contiguous Palestinian state. When Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich approved construction plans for 3,400 new homes in...
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