The Palestinian Authority is accelerating its construction of a new city in the Ha-Masrek Nature Reserve in the Judean Mountains. In the last few weeks, a new resort complex was built in the reserve.
The new city in the reserve is being built at a fast pace to create facts on the ground and to make law enforcement more difficult, despite the explicit prohibition against building there following the Oslo Accords. The enforcement agencies do not operate in the field.
Another step that the city planners are now taking is the construction of a B&B complex for Palestinian Arab tourism.
Gush Etzion Regional Council Head Yaron Rosenthal said, “If we do not stop the rampant illegal construction in the Ha-Masrek Reserve today, in a few years we will be dealing with one of the most serious security incidents here. This serious failure is a security risk for the State of Israel, wake up.”
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PA accelerates construction of illegal city in nature reserve, by Israel National News, May 19, 2024