The right-wing Nachala settlement movement claimed on Wednesday that thousands of its followers responded to its recent calls for building outposts on Palestinian lands and started to establish a number of them across the West Bank.
The Hebrew media quoted Nachala as saying that six settler outposts were established on Wednesday on annexed lands near the settlements of Psagot and Neria in Ramallah the settlement of Kiryat Arba in al-Khalil and the settlements of Barkan and Revava in Salfit.
According to Haaretz website thousands of settlers most of them teenagers set up tents in six locations across the occupied West Bank on Wednesday as part of a months-long plan by the Nachala group to establish new settlement outposts.
Haaretz claimed that one of the outposts near Kiryat Arba was dismantled by Israeli soldiers but hundreds of extremist settlers pledged to sleep at the remaining five outposts overnight and stay there over the next few days.
The Nachala campaign started with a settler march near Ariel settlement when activists from the anti-settlement group Peace Now suddenly arrived at this starting point in order to block the rally but Israeli soldiers intervened and tried to disperse the left-wing activists according to Haaretz.
In recent months Nachala which already managed to build outposts in some West Bank areas held conferences and gatherings aimed at recruiting settlers for its new campaign to build outposts.
The movement incited the participating settlers to stock up on water and food that would last until next Friday and get prepared for a long stay in the new seized areas.
