Settlers from the illegal Itamar settlement, which is built on land belonging to the village of El-Khader, south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, have enlarged the colony with a number of mobile homes.
Ahmed Salah, the coordinator of the popular campaign to resist settlement in El-Khader, told the local media that the settlers have put 10 caravans on the outskirts of the well-known settlement and started to connect it to the electricity supply. Street lights have been installed on a road which was paved a few days before in the area of Ein Qessies, adjacent to El-Khader village, where settlers have seized just over one acre of Palestinian-owned land.
Salah noted that Israel’s Supreme Court ruled several years ago that Itamar settlement must be dismantled, but the settlers are continuing to expand the illegal site.