Israeli peace group slams new settlement in West Bank

JERUSALEM: Israeli anti-settler organization Peace Now on Thursday denounced the creation of a new settlement, announced earlier by the Gush Etzion regional council in the south of the occupied West Bank. Yaron Rosental, the president of the Gush Etzion council, on Thursday morning announced the creation of a “new locality” near Bethlehem. “Tonight, we established a new locality at Shdema, near Bethlehem,” Rosental said in a video circulated by his office.

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