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Israeli settlers set up new outpost in occupied West Bank

Sunday, 11 September 2022 3:57 PM [ Last Update: Sunday, 11 September 2022 3:57 PM ]

The undated photo shows a view of an Israeli settlement on the occupied Palestinian land.

Israeli settlers have set up a new outpost on a piece of Palestinian land on Mount Khareji near the town of Qusra in the occupied West Bank.

Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official who monitors settler activities in the area, said a group of settlers had encircled the land with barbed wire, installed structures and erected shelters. They also bulldozed the Palestinian land in southern Nablus to construct controversial ring and link roads.

In al-Khalil, an Israeli group carried out construction work to expand the outpost of Avigayil in eastern Yatta.

The Israeli rights group B'Tselem says the regime has used a complex mechanism to take control of more Palestinian land in the West Bank.

A series of methods employed by Israel to steal land includes seizure for military needs, declaration of land as "abandoned assets," and the expropriation of land for public needs.

In recent years, Israeli authorities have approved plans for the construction of hundreds of new settler units in the West Bank, irrespective of the international outcry against the regime’s settlement expansion.

The regime has stepped up its settlement construction activities in defiance of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334, which pronounces settlements in the occupied West Bank and East al-Quds “a flagrant violation under international law.”

The Security Council has condemned Israel’s settlement activities in the occupied territories in several resolutions.