OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (PIC)– Israeli ministry of security decided to establish a new settlement close to Shilo settlement for those settlers who will be evacuated from Amona outpost. The latter will be demolished by the end of 2016 based on Israeli Supreme Court ruling in December 2014.
According to a brief statement by council of settlements in the West Bank (Yesha) the new settlement will include 139 units to house 40 families of extremist Jews and will be located between Nablus and Ramallah.
Haaretz Hebrew newspaper reported that Israeli government wants to construct the new settlement in order to satisfy the extremists and opponents of the evacuation of Amona settlement.
The newspaper said that the government had previously confiscated the land over which the new settlement will be constructed under the pretext of being located within “state property”.
Amona settlement was built in 1997 on a private land which belongs to Palestinians who waged a legal battle against the confiscation of their land over the period between 2006-2014 which was concluded by Israeli Supreme Court ruling of demolishing the settlement by 2016.
