The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission has said that the Israeli regional council of Gush Etzion settlements in the occupied West Bank decided to build hundreds of settler homes on annexed lands in Bethlehem.
According to director of the Commission in Bethlehem Hasan Berejiya the Gush Etzion council approved the development of a plan to build 510 housing units for Jewish settlers in illegal settlements in the south and east of Bethlehem.
400 of these housing units are intended for construction in Migdal Oz settlement which was built on land belonging to Beit Fajjar town in southern Bethlehem.
110 other units will be built in the settler outpost of Ibei Hanahal which was built on land belonging to Kisan town in eastern Bethlehem.
