Colonizers Establish New Settlement Outpost Southeast of Bethlehem

SadaNews - Today, Sunday, colonizers have established a new colonial outpost on the lands of citizens in the Al-Minya area, southeast of Bethlehem.

The head of the Al-Minya village council, Zaid Kawazba, stated to the official agency that a group of colonizers set up several tents in the southern part of the village.

He added that the establishment of this outpost came less than 24 hours after a brutal attack carried out by colonizers in the nearby Wadi Sa'ir area, which resulted in the burning of the vehicle of citizen Ihab Shalaldeh and the destruction of solar energy cells used by residents for lighting and watering livestock.

Kawazba further mentioned: "What is happening is a dangerous escalation in the series of forced displacement; for weeks, our area has been subjected to repeated attacks by colonizers under the protection of the army, aiming to force residents to leave their lands. Today, they are starting to establish a settlement outpost that confirms their premeditated intentions to seize the land."

Kawazba called on human rights and humanitarian organizations and international institutions for urgent intervention to stop this illegal settlement expansion, which constitutes a blatant violation of international law and the Geneva Conventions, and threatens the Palestinian existence in the entire area.

He emphasized that Al-Minya is one of the rural gatherings heavily targeted by settlement activities, as several illegal settlement outposts are spread around it, which are part of a plan to separate the southern West Bank from its center through a series of colonial expansions.

The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission stated that in the first half of 2025, colonizers established 23 colonial outposts on citizens' lands, most of which are pastoral outposts, in the governorates of Ramallah, Nablus, Hebron, Qalqilya, Tubas, and Jerusalem, continuing the policy of imposing facts that colonizers pursue on the ground with full protection from the occupation army.