AL-KHALIL (PIC)– Israeli settlers on Friday established a new settlement outpost in the southern part of al-Khalil district. They invaded the village of Karmel to the east of Yatta while others invaded the Za’ta neighbourhood of Beit Ummar in the north of the district.
Coordinator of the national committee to resist the wall and settlements in Yatta Rateb Jobour said that around 25 settlers accompanied by “border guards” and occupation police raided the village of Karmel and set up six mobile homes in the Um al-Sakhan neighbourhood close to the Maun settlement which is built on land belonging to the village.
Spokesman of the national committee against settlement in Beit Ummar Yusuf Abu Marya said that about 150 settlers toured the fields in Za’ta neighbourhood to the east of the town and they closed the road between al-Quds and al-Khalil and stopped Palestinian cars from going through and hampered traffic under IOF protection.
Settlement expert Abdel-Hadi Hantash said that these moves are part of the a plan to expand settlements and confiscate more Palestinian lands.
