Israeli settlers establish an illegal outpost on Palestinian land in the north of the West Bank

Heeding calls by their Israeli officials to build settlements in the occupied territories, settlers, protected by soldiers, today established a new outpost on Palestinian lands in the town of Deir Istya, west of the northern West Bank city of Salit, according to the town’s mayor Muath Salman. He told WAFA that dozens of settlers broke into an area north of the town, set up two mobile homes and three livestock sheds, opened a dirt road, and extended water and electricity lines to the site. Israel’s far-right and fascist Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, called on his extremist followers to take over hilltops in the occupied Palestinian territories and build settlements on them. All settlements are considered illegal under international law.

Source: En – Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA