The so-called commander of the Israeli occupation army's Central Command issued a decision to transform the "Eduraim" settlement outpost, built on Dura lands south of Hebron, into a colony.

This colonial outpost was established in July four years ago and has witnessed significant growth and absorption, with 26 families currently residing there.

The plot of land on which the colonial outpost was built belongs to citizens of the town of Dura, south of Hebron. The occupation forces seized it in the 1970s, and established the "Adorim" military base there.

Amir Daoud, Director General of Documentation and Publication at the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, said that the decision came in response to a request from extremist Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich to legalize five colonial outposts in the West Bank: Adorim in Hebron, Avitar in Nablus, Sade Efraim and Givat Asaf in Ramallah, and Halitz in the area between Hebron and Bethlehem.

David said that the new settlement will be able to submit plans for the construction of residential units within it independently, as it is considered a complete settlement, not a neighborhood within a settlement. Rather, it will receive a separate urban planning code like other cities.

He pointed out that the number of settlers in the West Bank, according to statistics from the Wall Resistance Commission, reached 780,000 in 2024, including Jerusalem, which is home to approximately 310,000 settlers.

Daoud pointed out that the most prominent element in the extremist occupation government's coalition agreements relates to expanding colonial outposts to appease the extreme right, amid fears that these settlements will expand and establish the illegal presence of the settlers as an irreversible fait accompli, thus eliminating the possibility of establishing a Palestinian state in the future through a policy of imposing facts on the ground.

The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission's report documented settlers' attempts last month to establish eight new settlement outposts, predominantly agricultural and pastoral. These outposts were distributed as follows: two settlement outposts were attempted on lands in the Tubas Governorate, and one outpost each in Jericho, Hebron, Bethlehem, Ramallah, Tulkarm, and Nablus.

The Commission indicated that the planning authorities in the occupying state studied 27 master plans for the West Bank settlements and within the borders of the Jerusalem municipality last February, including 22 plans for West Bank settlements and 5 plans within the borders of the Jerusalem municipality. It approved 14 plans, including 11 in the West Bank, while 13 plans, including 11 in the West Bank, were submitted for study in preparation for approval. The February plans targeted a total of 3,245 dunams of citizens' land, with the aim of building 2,684 new settlement units, including 1,278 units for West Bank settlements and 1,406 for settlements within the borders of the Jerusalem municipality.