The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) plans to establish another huge settlement bloc in western Salfit in the West Bank through connecting several illegal settlements with each other with more housing units and infrastructure projects.
In this regard local sources in Salfit told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that Israeli bulldozers embarked on bulldozing and leveling a vast tract of Palestinian land in western Salfit in order to build those housing units and infrastructure projects.
According to the Hebrew pro-settler website Arutz Sheva the Israeli interior ministry decided to establish a new settlement city through amalgamating four settlements located west of Salfit and south of Qalqilya.
Those four settlements are Elkana Sha’arei Tikva Oranit and Etz Efraim.
