Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new far-right government announced last week it would legalize Givat Harel, along with nine other unauthorized West Bank outposts, boosting settlers' morale and strengthening their hold on the land.
Drori's village, on a ridge between the Palestinian cities of Ramallah and Nablus, is part of an extensive network of 150 outposts now home to some 20,000 settlers, according to anti-settlement watchdog Peace Now. The outposts appeared over the past three decades, many built at least partially on private Palestinian land, Peace Now says.
On Monday, days after the government's outpost approvals triggered widespread condemnation, Netanyahu declared a six-month freeze in recognizing new outposts -- part of a U.S.-brokered agreement to avert a diplomatic crisis at the United Nations. Since then, successive governments have made a distinction between authorized settlements and "illegal" outposts, such as Dori's Givat Harel.
Neighbouring Palestinians, who could only obtain power from solar panels and routinely faced home demolitions because they lacked building permits in the Israeli-controlled part of the West Bank, warily eyed the outpost's fresh paint and irrigated gardens. Now, settlers find their closest allies at the highest government levels. On Thursday, Netanyahu's new coalition officially granted Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a settler leader, authority over settlement construction.
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