https://digivn.dw.com/view/250814-09-0616

Lower thirds:

0:03  Report by / Lisa Ellis
0:47  Bezalel Smotrich / Israeli Finance Minister
2:04  Ahmed al Deek / Advisor to the Palestinian Foreign Minister

Script:

The illegal Israeli settlement of  Maale Adumim in the West Bank is once again attracting global attention.

The brown patch of land in the background is where the controversial new constuction is set to take place.

More than 3000 new homes for settlers will be built there,  if Israel's far right finance minister gets his way . 

It is a move he hopes will put paid to the prospect of a Palestinian state-forever

"3. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Bezalel Smotrich, Israeli Finance Minister: 
"Anyone who tries today in the world to recognize a Palestinian state will receive an answer from us on the ground. Not in documents, not in decisions or declarations, but in facts. 1.04 In the facts of houses, in the facts of neighborhoods, roads, and more and more Jewish families will build lives. 1:13

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Erecting thousands of housing units in what is called the E1 area  would effectively split the West Bank in two and cut the territory off from East Jerusalem, the city Palestinians hope to have as their future capital.

Opposition to expansion at this site has a long history.

In 2005 Palestinian protesters and peace activists already tried to stop Israel from enlarging the settlement there.. which like all such  settlements is illegal under international law.

At the time the controversy was framed as a battle for Jerusalem and a effort to prevent the creation of what was called Greater Palestine by  the then finance minister Benyamin Netanyahu  .

Several years later in 2012 as objections mounted not just from the Palestinians but also from the US and European countries...who saw the project as a threat to any future peace deal.... 

Israel froze construction plans.

Palestinians are furious that they're now being revived.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmed al Deek, adviser to the Palestinian foreign minister: 
"This decision is a colonial, expansionist, and racist move — a direct threat that could ignite the entire conflict. For us, this is an old-new project that was frozen more than twenty years ago. ”

Now it seems it could become reality in just a few months time... in yet another blow to Palestinians struggling to survive.