HEBRON, March 12, 2025 (WAFA) – The so-called Commander of the Central Command of the Israeli occupation army issued a decision to o legalize the  Edorim colonial outpost, built on lands in Dura, south of Hebron,as a colony.

This colonial outpost was established four years ago and has witnessed significant growth and absorption, with 26 families currently residing there.

The land on which the colonial outpost was built belongs to local residents from the  town of Dura, south of Hebron. The occupation seized it in the 1970s, where it established the Edorim military base.

Amir Daoud, Director General of Documentation and Publication at the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, said that the decision came in response to a request from extremist Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich to legalize five colonial outposts in the West Bank: Edorim in Hebron, Avitar in Nablus, Sadi Efraim and Givat Asaf in Ramallah, and Halitz in the area between Hebron and Bethlehem.

He pointed out that the number of colonists in the West Bank, according to statistics from the Wall Resistance Commission, reached 780,000 in 2024, including Jerusalem, which is home to approximately 310,000 settlers.

Daoud noted that the most prominent element in the extremist occupation government's coalition agreements relates to the expansion of illegal colonial outposts to appease the extreme right.

The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission's report monitored colonists' attempts last month to establish eight new colonial outposts, predominantly agricultural and pastoral. These outposts included two attempts to establish t outposts on lands in the Tubas governorate, and one each in Jericho, Hebron, Bethlehem, Ramallah, Tulkarm, and Nablus.

Y.S