The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that armed settlers have established a new settlement outpost in the northern West Bank. The move comes a day after extremist settlers re-established a religious school in the outpost of Homesh.

The ministry considered that the settlement expansion "is a translation of an official Israeli policy that is racing against time to implement the largest possible number of expansionist settlement projects" It accused the Israeli government of relying on resolving the crises of its ruling coalition at the expense of the Palestinian people and their rights.