Hassan Barijia, the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission office Director in Bethlehem, told Safa News Agency that the occupation's government approved the construction of 560 new settlement units in east Bethlehem to expand the settlement established on the lands of the Palestinian villages Kisan and Al-Rashaida.

The settlers had seized an old building in Al-Rashaida and turned it into an outpost, paving the path for the seizure of hundreds of surrounding donums