The new colonial outpost, established by settlers, is located on the eastern side of the Al-Buqi’a Plain in the northern Jordan Valley. More than a week ago, the settlers placed a small barn and a group of cows in the "Al-Hanou" area located on the eastern side of the Peqi'a Plain.
Then, yesterday, they set up three "barracks" in the area, and turned them into a settlement outpost. The total area of land that the outpost is expected to seize is estimated at about 1,800 dunums, noting that these lands are owned by citizens from the town of Tammun. The settlers who established this outpost carried out attacks on the shepherds earlier, as they chased and beat them two days ago, as a result of which one of them was hit in the head with sticks.
Today a number of 83 agricultural and pastoral outposts that control an area of 270 thousand dunums, most of which are concentrated in the Jordan Valley and the eastern slopes.
Agricultural outposts are a method followed by the occupying state in order to control the land, and it is an unofficial means, that is, it is based on an act by settlers that the official institution in the occupying state protects and adopts until it becomes a fixed official procedure. The occupying state, represented by armed settlers, is establishing this type of outpost in order to besiege the Palestinian presence in the Jordan Valley and expel the Palestinians from their lands in order to control the natural resources and tighten control over the Jordan Valley and the eastern slopes, which are considered the Palestinian strategic food reservoir.