Palestinian Authority condemns approval of West Bank settlement

The Palestinian Authority condemned Israel's approval of a key settlement project in the occupied West Bank.

Earlier on Wednesday, far-right minister Bezalel Smotrich described the project as “erasing” a Palestinian state “not with slogans but with actions”. 

The PA's foreign ministry said in a statement that the approval of the project in the area known as E1 "fragments... geographic and demographic unity, entrenching the division of the occupied West Bank into isolated areas and cantons that are disconnected from one another, turning them into something akin to real prisons."