AL-KHALIL (Palestine Foundation Information Center) IThe commander of the central region in the Israeli army issued a resolution on Tuesday to officially turn Edorim settlement outpost, built on Dura town lands south of Al-Khalil, into a settlement.
The outpost’s settlers received the decision from the military commander who visited it today, noting that it was built on privately owned Palestinian land in the Majnouna area in Dura.
This came in implementation of a decision issued by the Israeli government last June in response to a request by the extremist Israeli minister of finance Bezalel Smotrich, to legalize five random settlement outposts in the West Bank.
The settlement outpost was established in July 2021 by seven Jewish families who were later evacuated by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF), while it remained under the IOF’s control.
The same plot of land, which belongs to families from Dura, was confiscated by the IOF in the 1970s and the Edorim military base was built on it.
After the army evacuated it in 2010, the “Hebron Mountain” settlement council established a regional emergency center, and settlers then took control over it.
