The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has resumed the construction of a new settlement for Amona settlers whose illegal West Bank outpost was evacuated a few months ago following a court order.
Israel’s Channel 7 said on Tuesday that premier Benjamin Netanyahu gave orders in this regards to the competent authorities and minister of construction Yoav Galant.
The construction of the settlement already started last month but it was suspended because the Israeli government did not transfer the needed funds.
The new settlement known as Amichai is being built to house about 300 hardline residents of the illegal West Bank Jewish outpost of Amona who were evicted by police in February after a court ruled their houses were established on privately owned Palestinian land.
Part of the new settlement however will be built on Palestinian-owned land southeast of Nablus city.
Amichai will be the first entirely new state-approved settlement constructed in the Palestinian territories since the Israeli-Palestinian Oslo peace accords were signed in 1993 although illegal outposts have been constructed in that period and other settlements have expanded.
