Youths establish 6 new illegal outposts
Hundreds of youngsters set up new West Bank outpost. One girl says: We’re sick and tired of talking and are starting to act. We went through a nightmare in Gaza and northern West bank and are responding now
A new movement comprised of hundreds of youths from across the nation is establishing six new illegal outposts on hills in the West Bank Wednesday.
Israeli youngsters are sick and tired of the desire to hand over land belonging to the people of Israel, 18-year-old Tamar Kimchi, a member of the group and a resident of the settlement of Efrat told Ynet.
“We are youths who care. We are sick and tired of talking and are starting to act so the criminal plan of the fence is called off. We plan to rise up on every hill in the battle for the land of Israel. We are fighting to be here,” she said.
According to Kimchi, the new outposts are to be established near Efrat, Elon Moreh, Kedumim, Kiryat Arba, and Maon.
Arik Yitzhaki, a Gush Katif evacuee and a prominent anti-disengagement activist, who joined the latest initiative, told Ynet that “we (the settlers) lost a fight over Gush Katif yet the battle for the Land of Israel is ahead of us.”
A former resident of Gush Katif who is currently living with members of his family in the Efrat settlement of Gush Etzion, Yitzhaki spoke to Ynet from the construction site where the new outpost is being erected.
He explained that the outpost is part of efforts to stop the construction of the West Bank security fence, whose current route separates Efrat from its community’s cemetery.
“There are about 100 teenage members of the new movement, who were labeled ‘illegal aliens’ over the summer when they arrived to support Gush Katif settlers,” he said.
“There they absorbed proper principles and we are using them today to pursue the fight over the Land of Israel,” he said.
He added that settlers will seek to expand their construction of outposts deep into the West Bank so as to include “many Jewish settlements on the other side of the fence. Another aim is a struggle against Shimon Peres and people from the ‘peace camp’ who are planning the dismantling of 30 to 40 Jewish outposts in Judea and Samaria,” said Yitzhaki.
- Ronny Sofer contributed to the report
