Israeli settlers escalated settlement expansion activity in the occupied West Bank on Monday, establishing a new pastoral outpost in the northern West Bank and beginning reconstruction of another outpost south of Hebron, only days after Israeli forces themselves had dismantled it.
Video footage circulated by settlers documented the establishment of a new pastoral outpost named “Gil Moshe Farm,” located near the planned site of the “Marom Gilboa” settlement, which is slated for construction in the northern West Bank in the coming months.
In the southern West Bank, groups of settlers began rebuilding the informal outpost known as “Beit Einun Hill,” northeast of Hebron, days after Israeli police and military forces had demolished it and removed settlers from the site the previous Thursday. Settler platforms reported that the rebuilding effort includes new tents and structures, as well as the construction of a synagogue inside the outpost, funded by donations collected specifically in response to the earlier demolition — an effort aimed at cementing a permanent settler presence at the site.
The near-immediate rebuilding of a site that authorities had just cleared underscores a recurring dynamic in the West Bank: enforcement actions against unauthorized outposts are frequently followed by rapid reconstruction, often with tacit or explicit backing from settler support networks and, critics say, insufficient follow-through from Israeli authorities to prevent recurrence.
