The Israeli government is scheduled to approve the establishment of 10 Jewish-only towns in the Negev next Sunday.
In a statement issued Wednesday Israeli interior minister Ayelet Shaked declared that “five new towns will be created near Arad in addition to the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) community of Kassif that was authorized last week. Five more will be created on the road between Beersheba and Dimona.”
“This historic and exciting decision has strategic and national importance in strengthening the settlement of the Negev” the statement added. “Creating 10 new communities is Zionism in all its glory.”
The Israeli minister’s decision came following the Tuesday’s stabbing attack in Beersheba in which four Israelis died.
Hamas Movement described the attack as “a response to the policy of ethnic displacement practiced by Israel against our Palestinian people”.
