7,000 citizens are threatened with forced displacement from the Jerusalem desert.

The Jerusalem Governorate announced on Monday that approximately 7,000 residents living in 22 communities in the Jerusalem Badia face the risk of forced displacement due to the implementation of the Israeli colonization project known as E1, along with the Sovereignty Road project.

She added that the colonial project will also almost completely isolate and separate the Jabal al-Baba and Wadi Jamal communities from the town of al-Eizariya, where approximately 100 people live.

The Finance Minister in the extremist occupation government, Bezalel Smotrich, announced several days ago his approval of the construction of thousands of colonial units within the colonial plan in the "E1" area, located east of Jerusalem. This means destroying the opportunity to embody the Palestinian state on the ground, undermining its geographical and demographic unity, and consolidating the division of the West Bank into isolated areas.

According to B'Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, the implementation of construction plans in the E1 area will create urban contiguity between the Ma'ale Adumim settlement and Jerusalem, will further isolate East Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank, and will undermine the geographical contiguity between the northern and southern parts of the West Bank.