Israeli settlers build new settlement in Hebron

Hundreds of Israeli settlers started last night building a new settlement on the territory of the farming village of “Baq’a”, east of Hebron in the West Bank.

A villager named Mar’i Jaber (local witness), said that large numbers of Israeli settlers raided the village in the evening, with amounts of cement, sand, wood and water tanks in preparation for starting the construction of illegal outpost on a mountainous area located on the eastern side of the village.

He explained that this area belongs to the citizen Abdel Jawad Jaber, an estimated area of hundreds of acres.

The citizens of that village are living in a state of fear and would like to stay at the mountains over the night fearing an attack by Israeli settlers.

In a related context, an Israeli army bulldozer shut down the junction connecting the town of Hebron and the town of Bani Na’im east of Hebron in the region close to the Kiryat Arba settlement, east of the province.