Hopeful settlers of the Amona settlement. (photo credit: TAZPIT)
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Settlers on Friday announced that they had begun to rebuild the Amona outpost to protest what they fear is a new wave of West Bank terror attacks.
“This is the basic Zionist response to Arab terror,” the Binyamin Regional Council said.
The IDF forcibly evacuated the outpost in 2017. It did so in response to a High Court of Justice ruling that the outpost was built on private Palestinian property and must be evacuated.
To compensate the 40 Amona families Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorized and built the first new West Bank settlement in close to 25 years. It is located near the Shiloh settlement and is called Amichai.
The Binyamin Regional council said that with the help of private donations settlers legally purchased 40 dunams of land on the Amona hilltop located on the outskirts of the Ofra settlement.
On Friday morning, the council announced it had erected two modular homes at the site of the former Amona hilltop community.
Binyamin Regional Council head Israel Ganz that the plots were legally purchased.
“Yesterday I promised that we would establish a new settlement point in Binyamin in response to the serious attacks. Today we did it.”
He thanked Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan and MK Bezalel Smotrich (Bayit Yehudi) for helping with the Amona initiative.
Dagan called on Netanyahu to immediately authorize Amona as a legal settlement.
Smotrich said that Netanyahu must prove he truly leads a right-wing government by legalizing Amona.
On Sunday the Ministerial Legislative Committee is set to debate a private members bill submitted by Smotrich that would authorized West Bank outposts on state land, transforming them into legal settlements or legal neighborhoods of existing settlements.
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