A far-right Israeli minister has backed controversial settlement plans in order to ensure there is “nothing left to recognise” of a Palestinian state.

Far-right Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich announced approval for 3,401 new homes in the controversial E1 area project in the occupied West Bank.

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