Peace Now blasts a recent announcement by the state of the allocation of 1,182 dunams (292 acres) of land south of Bethlehem to the Housing Ministry for the purpose of a new settlement neighborhood that will include as many as 2,500 homes.
The left-wing NGO argues that if constructed, the community known as Givat Eitam would bisect the southern West Bank and prevent territorial contiguity in a future Palestinian state.
It would be located in an area known E2, regarding which the international community has expressed worries that Israeli construction there would prevent the natural growth of the Palestinian city of Bethlehem.
“It is no accident that this and other settlement announcements over the past few days have been done during the Christmas holidays, when the entire Western world is on vacation, and immediately after the elections in Israel were announced,” Peace Now says in a statement.
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