Under the title "Everything is Expected and the Authority is Building" these days the Gush Etzion Council is embarking on an uncompromising struggle and demanding from the state institutions, an immediate halt to the construction of the Arab city being built by the Palestinian Authority in the agreed nature reserve in eastern Gush Etzion.
Council officials make it clear that "the city that the Arabs are building in the heart of the desert in recent times is destroying the Judean desert, and may be a source of terrorist groups that will emerge from the new Arab city."
The officials criticize the government and say: "The systematic ignoring of the progress of the establishment of the Arab city, about which Gush Etzion has been warning for a long time, is leading to an irreversible and dangerous situation."
"We call on the government to immediately stop the rampant illegal construction in the sensitive reserve, and to prevent severe damage that will be caused to the settlement in Gush Etzion in particular, and to the entire state of Israel," the sources said.
