“The Defense (War) Minister has to stop construction, even if the plan was approved by the previous government. The settlement in Hebron (Al-Khalil) is the ugly face of Israeli control of the territories. The moral and political price of having a settlement in Hebron (Al-Khalil) is unbearable,” added the statement.
This week, settlers began construction work on a new settlement of 31 housing units in the heart of the Old City of Al-Khalil, in the old bus station complex. This new construction in Al-Khalil is the first in twenty years that is being carried out inside the Palestinian city, in a compound that has been occupied by the Israeli occupation army for years as a military base and is now being established as a settlement.
All kinds of Israeli settlement activities in the occupied territories are considered illegal by the international community.
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