The Hebrew newspaper Haaretz revealed, on Monday, that the Israeli authorities have reached the final planning stages of constructing a separate road for the Palestinians linking the south and north of the West Bank in the E1 area near the Ma’ale Adumim settlement, without passing through the settlements.

According to the Hebrew newspaper, the road was planned in an area where Israel had so far avoided construction due to severe international criticism.

The United States, the European Union and other countries criticized any plans in the region, especially since they are considered part of the heart of the plan for the future Palestinian state.

The planned route is supposed to pass from the Al-Zaim area and continue to Al-Eizariya, southeast of Jerusalem, and its stated purpose is to separate Palestinian passengers who have to cross "Gush Adumim" to reach Route 1, away from Jewish passengers, according to the newspaper.

She pointed out that the road was originally planned according to the route of the separation wall that was built in the area, which means that Israel will be able to start building the route of the separation wall planned around "Gush Adumim" and build in the area.

She pointed out that the road planning was approved in 2020 by the then Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett, and its construction depends on the political level.

The project is defined as "security" and does not pass through the usual planning institutions and its planning processes are not transparent, yet the Ministry of Transportation and the Jerusalem Infrastructure Company participate in it.

The road partially passes through Areas (B), which are areas in which Israel does not have the authority to plan and build regular roads. It was recently agreed between the Ministries of Finance and Transportation to allocate an additional 30 million shekels for the road, out of a total cost estimate of 279 million shekels.

The Ma'ale Adumim settlement municipality says that the purpose of the road is to separate the lines of communication between the Palestinians and the settlers, and it will allow the Palestinian residents to go directly to Ramallah without passing through the Al-Za'im checkpoint or the roads used by the Jews.

On the political level, the road will connect Jerusalem with the settlement of Ma'aleh Adumim, and allow construction in the existing Jewish settlement in the area known as E1.

Attorney Neta Ammar Shiv, representing the municipality of Al-Eizariya and the Bedouin communities in the area, says that the road will be built on the basis of an order to seize private Palestinian lands, and it will exacerbate and exacerbate the traffic crisis and will not solve it, as Israel claims, and will cut off the road between the Bedouin communities living in Area C.

While the Peace Now organization said that the road will separate Al-Khan Al-Ahmar from the dozens of Bedouin communities surrounding it, and it is an apartheid road designed to close a vast area in the heart of the West Bank to the Palestinians, which means annexing those areas to Israel.