Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday laid the cornerstone for a new settlement compound that includes over 1000 units in Beitar Illit settlement located south of Bethlehem in the West Bank.
“No other government has worked for settlement like my government” Netanyahu said in the foundation stone laying ceremony for the new neighborhood in Beitar Illit. The Jerusalem Post also quoted Netanyahu as saying “We are connecting Beitar Illit to Jerusalem.”
Beitar Illit is the second largest illegal Jewish settlement in the West Bank. It was illegally built in 1990 as part of Gush Etzion settlement bloc in the south of the West Bank with nearly 50000 residents.
The Israeli government has recently escalated settlement activities in the West Bank including Occupied Jerusalem in full disregard to the Palestinian Arab and international condemnation.
