Illegal Israeli settlers erected a new outpost today on Palestinian-owned lands near the village of Mekhmas, to the northeast of occupied Jerusalem, according to local sources. Hasan Melehat, a local Palestinian rights activist, told WAFA that a number of Israeli settlers broke into Al-Baqaa area, east of the village, and set up caravans in a prelude for a new colonial outpost there. He said the new Israeli outpost comes in the context of the far-right Israeli government’s efforts to change the demographic balance in the occupied territories in favor of the Israeli settler population. Earlier today, Israeli settlers in support by the occupation forces set up six mobile homes on private Palestinian lands in the village of al-Lubban al-Sharqiya, on the road connecting Ramallah and Nablus in the north of the occupied West Bank.
Source: En – Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA