Israeli finance minister directly links green-lighting 3,000 housing units in West Bank with killing two-state solution, days after western states said they would recognise Palestine

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.

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