THE Israeli government's move to open a construction tender for a residential property project called 'E1' in the occupied West Bank "fundamentally harms" the prospect of the two-state solution, the European Union said on Sunday (August 23).
In a statement from EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas, the EU urged Israel to withdraw the tender and halt the project.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Friday joined European countries to condemn plans to open up construction tenders for the project.
"The Israeli Government's decision to publish construction tenders for the E1 settlement project is unacceptable," she said in a post on X. "We have long opposed this step."
